Emergence of a new visual language for castaway islanders</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Emergence of a new visual language for castaway islanders"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Emergence,of,a,new,visual,language,for,castaway,islanders"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">22-09-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Emergence of a new visual language for castaway islanders</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Melbourne, Australia (Age): With scarcely any English, the only conduit between the old people's vanishing world and the wider one was Australian National University linguist Professor Nicholas Evans, who has spent much of the past 25 years collecting and learning their words and stories before their inevitable extinguishment. That was until three years ago, when something extraordinary happened. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/emergence-of-a-new-visual-language-for-castaway-islanders-20080919-4k8n.html " target="blank">www.theage.com.au/national/emergence-of-a-new-visual-language-for-castaway-islanders-20080919-4k8n.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show