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Kattang Language Revitalisation

There are three main outcomes for this project, designed to accommodate the desire of the community to revive their language:

1. Publish ‘A Learner's Guide to Kattang’. This will be a reference resource consisting of: A Learner's Grammar of Kattang (describing the sounds, word and sentence building strategies of the language); a wordlist (Kattang - English) and finderlist (English - Kattang); ranscriptions of recorded stories and sentences and an accompanying CD.  This will be the main reference document  for teaching and learning materials produced for adult and school language classes.
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2. Design and deliver language learning workshops based on ‘A Learner's Guide to Kattang’ to adult community members.

3. Continue to collect archival documents, copies of which will be available to community members.
Descendents of the speakers of Kattang language have a strong attachment to the language, which forms part of their cultural identity. Community members have a strong interest and growing awareness of language revival. There is a positive attitude to Kattang language revitalisation. All meetings organised by MRALC in Taree and Port Macquarie have been well attended and the draft documents have been received with enthusiasm and appreciation.

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