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'Language carries our custom': the keepers of Torres Strait's traditional lingo

Phillemon Mosby works on Poruma to strengthen the sleeping Kulkalgau Ya language he was taught by his grandmother

In a community garden on the island of Poruma in the late 1980s, Lillah Pearson never stopped speaking Kulkalgau Ya to her grandson, Phillemon Mosby.

Kulkalgau Ya, spoken on the central islands of the Torres Strait, is one of the four dialects of the Kala Lagaw Ya language.

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