43 Language as Archive (Live at the Canberra Writers Festival)

Before British colonisation, there were more than 250 languages spoken on this continent. Less than half survive today, and most of them are under threat. In a live episode of their hit podcast, Archive Fever, historians Yves Rees and Clare Wright are joined by special guests Cheryl Leavy and Paul Girrawah House to discuss orality as archive: how language helps us know the past and why the work of language revitalisation – bringing languages back to life – is so vital to the future.

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43 Language as Archive (Live at the Canberra Writers Festival) is an episode from Archive Fever by Clare Wright and Yves Rees.

This episode is 61:54 long.

This episode was published on Oct 31, 2024.

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