As you may or may not know, Australia’s traditional languages are the most at risk in the world to disappear, somewhere in the world every 2 weeks a native language disappears.

Did you also know that 2008 is the International Year of Languages.

At Arwarbukarl CRA (ACRA) we have been developing a program called Miromaa over the last 3 years, currently this program is supporting language maintenance work in over 25 communities in Australia.  One of the programs biggest features is that it empowers Aboriginal people to work directly on our native languages, this in turn should help build up the number of people supporting Language Revival, Our Elders, Linguist’s and other Academics in the unlocking of our languages many secrets, but most importantly to stop language loss.

So ACRA is pleased to release our newly developed 3^rd evolution of Miromaa, now known as Miromaa3, it has now been redeveloped from the ground up on a totally new development platform.

Please have a look at a sneak preview that we released some months back at http://www.arwarbukarl.net.au/blog/?p=69

You can now view screenshots of the program and its features at http://www.arwarbukarl.com.au/default.aspx?id=153

Now, for the biggest change of at all, we have now introduced a secondary method of obtaining Miromaa.

·         If you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person working directly on maintaining a traditional language you may be able to receive Miromaa3 at no cost.·         If you are Language Centre working directly with the maintenance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages you may be able to receive Miromaa3 at no cost.·         If you are a Linguist, Researcher or other Academic working directly with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people in the maintenance of their traditional language you may be able to receive Miromaa3 at no cost.

Further information on how to obtain the program can be found here http://www.arwarbukarl.com.au/default.aspx?id=157

We hope that you view this new program and opportunities of obtaining Miromaa3 favourably and that you continue to support the empowering of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in being able to directly work in the maintenance of our traditional languages.