Thomas Poulton Thomas Poulton i(26980216 works by)
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1 ‘Treasure Every Word’ : The Linguistics of Australian Indigenous Languages Thomas Poulton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages 2022 anthology criticism

'Kado Muir – a Ngalia man – will never be able to have another conversation in his mother tongue. He tells the story of witnessing each of his elders dying and, in the process, his language. Successively, he had fewer and fewer people to communicate with. In the case of his language community, younger contemporaries shifted to English as the language exerted its colonial power – until at last Kado Muir became the last speaker of Ngalia.' (Introduction)
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