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Language app Feed the Monster the latest tool in battle to save endangered Warumungu language

Alyne Fry-Croydon, Jordan Gillard and Lachlan Dunemann are leading the app's local rollout. (ABC Alice Springs: Evan Wallace)

In 2017, the Feed the Monster app was rolled out in Syria to support refugee children to read and write in Arabic.

Six years later, it is the newest tool to inspire young residents of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory to learn the endangered language of Warumungu.

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