Indigenous Languages Conference

The website for the 2007 Indigenous Languages Conference is up (it’s being held as part of ALS2007). Should be a great conference!

New proof-reading marks

Via Language Hat, a very useful set of additions to the standard proofreaders’ marks. Just in time for use on final papers…

Another vaguely amusing link

While browsing for language information for a student of mine the other day, I came across languageportraits.net, a site of a single poem translated into 80 or so languages. I had a look at the language list and was *very* surprised to see Arrernte in the list. Clicking on the link takes you to a [...]

Linguistlist list of linguist blogs

I’m still busy (documenting my metadata codes today, then moving on to the last revisions for the learner’s guide, so I can ring a printer in Darwin who’ll accept pdf email submissions and post the guides to Milingimbi). But in looking for Language of the Week resources I came across a new feature on the [...]

Glottal stops in Australian languages

Ah, glottalisatioin in Australian languages. One of my favourite topics.
Let me add to Mark’s query that the glottal stops in question (at least in Yolŋu languages) have a weird distribution even within their restricted distribution, and an odd realisation too.
Intervocalically, they are a glottal stop. Word finally (after a vowel), they usually disappear entirely, although [...]

Hindsight show on Jarlmadangah

Stop whatever you’re doing and go and listen to Hindsight on outstations. The link goes to the mp3 of the program. The program was based largely around Jarlmadangah (a Nyikina outstation in the Kimberley region, on Mt Anderson station) and provided an excellent set of resons whythe outstation movement is important and why homelands are [...]

CiteULike

Probably everyone’s known about this for ages, but here at Anggarrgoon we specialise in being on the cutting edge of technology, even if it’s the edge used for bashing breadcrumbs…
If not, click on the CiteULike link in the sidebar on the right, under the blogroll. You’ll be taken to “anggarrgoon’s library”. It’s a site where [...]