126. Survival: Custodians of the Languages
The Allusionist
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What's Happening to the Language of the Next Generation?
Our oboriginal culture is oral, and so we don't have our own written records. We kind of are relying on what whitefellows decided was worth preserving. There were missionaries that did think that it was worth recording or languages. And they recorded something like two thousand words in 200 phrases. So you can just smash the into generational bonds by making the language impossible,. shatter it absolutely, and just disconnect it. That's a lot of pain, and a lots of pain that generation carries. How does the next generation find the positive from those horrific stories?
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