Category Archives: Identity

WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS A DYING (ABORIGINAL) LANGUAGE

Posted on May 18, 2018 by ling366

The main premise of this post is that language maintenance and language loss are influenced by POLITICS or the STRUGGLE for POWER. What does it mean when the country’s highest elected official speaks a dying Aboriginal language on very significant … Continue reading →

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The FUTURE of ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES in AUSTRALIA

Posted on May 18, 2018 by ling366

I believe that Ling 366 is a unit that does not only focus on Aboriginal Languages per se; it is also one that investigates the precarious status of said languages in Australia. In the course of my study for this … Continue reading →

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Yumplatok: “Our Talk” is not broken

Posted on May 18, 2018 by ling366

Torres Strait Creole emerged when Pidgin English was brought north following European colonization. Although Australian Creoles were born out of a necessity for communication with settlers, their status as complete and complex languages has not been recognized until relatively recently. … Continue reading →

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Kriol to English Lexicon

Posted on May 3, 2018 by ling366

Hi everyone, I am very interested in Creoles so I decided to find something on the aboriginal Creole ‘Kriol’ that I could share. The Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (AuSIL) has been supporting indigenous languages in Australia since 1961 and … Continue reading →

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palawa kani, the Tasmanian ‘composite language’

Posted on September 7, 2016 by ling366

Recently I began following the Endangered Languages Centre on Facebook and after flicking through some articles on the page I found myself reading about the language palawa kani, which means ‘Tasmanian Aborigines speak or talk’. The language has been composed … Continue reading →

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Teaching Indigenous Languages in primary schools

Posted on August 9, 2016 by ling366

Hi everyone, I thought I’d share these news articles which relate how some primary schools have introduce their local Indigenous language and is taught to all children of the school and town. Even though Indigenous Language in Education is in … Continue reading →

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Our Land Our Lanugages report released- exciting times for Aboriginal languages.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by australianlanguages

As many of you may be aware by now the Our Land, Our Languages report was released earlier this week. The report is the result of the Nation Inquiry into Indigenous Language Learning which collected submissions from all over the … Continue reading →

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Jeannie Adams talks about Indigenous literacy

Posted on July 6, 2012 by australianlanguages

Jeannie Adams of Black Ink Press discusses some reasons behind low rates of Indigenous childhood literacy in this radio interview broadcast on Radio National. Included in the  sometimes complex reasons she gives are the language books are written in, namely … Continue reading →

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Reviving Wiradjuri in schools, towns and wider communities.

Posted on July 6, 2012 by australianlanguages

ABC Open Albury/Wodonga has recently put up an excellent story and short video about the revival and growth of Wiradjuri language in the towns of Forbes and Parkes in N.S.W. Wiradjuri is being taught in primary schools to 1/10th of … Continue reading →

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Aidan Wilson (fullysic) on language loss and more.

Posted on July 6, 2012 by australianlanguages

Aidan Wilson from Fullysic blog wrote this article for the ABCs The Drum. In it he discusses the passing of his Grandmother, one of the few remaining fluent speakers of Tradational Tiwi and the wider implications of language loss for … Continue reading →

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