[1] Armed with a recently received grant, Dr Payi Linda Ford, from Charles Darwin University, is developing an app (together with other colleagues) that preserves Australia’s primeval and imperiled language.
[2] Dr. Ford foresees that the app utilizes both community-based program and smartphone technology in helping to preserve languages like the Marrithiyel and Mak Mak Marranunggu.
[3] When Dr. Ford’s team started working on the app, she confirmed that several other Aboriginal communities are reaching out to her so they could also build on similar initiatives for their languages.
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