Logging onto abc.net.au/news this morning resulted in three good news stories from Indigenous Australia, I’m happy to say:
A story on Kaurna traditional bark canoes.
Nyangumarta people won their Native Title claim!
Stan Grant senior was awarded an OA in the Queen’s Birthday honours for his work on Wiradjuri language revitalisation.
Good show.
Jangari’s in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald!
Rebekah Dimond, one of the students in my Australian languages class this semester, did a ripper job on a final project creating a Wikipedia page for Yan-nhaŋu. It’s up now. Enjoy!
One of the recurring supposed arguments against the widespread use of Aboriginal languages in the curriculum is that “they don’t have a word for X” (an ironic twist on the exoticism argument that such languages also have Ywords for snow/trees/animals/etc).
There are three or four ways that languages get new words. One is by borrowing from [...]
Some links from the RNLD list and elsewhere:
James Crippen posted a link to these squishy bowls. Very cool. From the same site, this plasma glass would make a good stimulus prompt.
Daryn McKenny posted about some updates to Miromaa. It’s now possible to import from other data sources! Good stuff.
Wamut posted a story which speaks for [...]
I quite like the term “rare” languages. It’s much better than ‘exotic’ and it has the connotation of something valuable without necessarily harping on the ‘death’ aspect of language death.
The term ‘rare languages’ was used in a number of media reports on the State Library of New South Wales’ digitisation of early settler Aboriginal vocabularies. [...]
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