“We realize that verbal practices were not enough to keep our languages alive. We needed the much appreciated skills of others who were able to put our languages into writing and so preserve them for the future.”

Foreword in Ngaapa Wangka Wangkajunga, A Dictionary of the Wangkajunga language from the Great Sandy Desert of Australia

From Spoken Here by Mark Abley, published by Random House Canada, 2003