The resurrection of a language long lost in Australia

The resurrection of a language long lost. The dictionary lay buried in an Adelaide library until it was unearthed in 1960. And there it might have stayed until in the early 1990s linguist Dr Rob Amery and members of the Kaurna community decided to "rebuild" the language and teach it to schoolchildren and adults. This was an epic undertaking. Amery and the Kaurna community had been left a smattering of words, but constructing the grammar was another matter.