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A collation of Aboriginal language news stories from around Australia. Indigenous language.

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I just uploaded “Working with speakers to record natural speech” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/510517196

Working with speakers to record natural speech

Tjupan language speaker, Edie Ulrich, shares about sound linguistic protocols for recording natural speech with language speakers. Edie talks about how to make the elicitation sessions enjoyable for...

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I just uploaded “Parts of speech for language workers” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/510482109

Parts of speech for language workers

This film looks at the parts of speech that may be found in languages - verbs and conjugations, nouns, pronouns, descriptors/adjectives and adverbs, and prepositions/post positions in an easy to...

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I just uploaded “Transcribing for Language Workers” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/510463692

Transcribing for language workers

Tjupan language speaker, Edie Ulrich, talks about how to transcribe speech from an elicitation session, what to include in the transcripts, marking time codes, using Audacity as an audio playback...

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I just uploaded “Session 1_1” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/411231733

Jarrak: Our languages journey through the 60s and 70s

Panel one – Chaired by Paul Paton Veronica Dobson AM is an Arrernte woman who began her career at the Institute for Aboriginal Development where she became the first manager of the Aboriginal...

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I just uploaded “Session 2_1” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/410051829

Jarrak: Our languages journey through the 80s and 90s

Panel two – Chaired by Theresa Sainty Parbin-ata Carolyn Briggs AM is a Boonwurrung elder, language and linguistics expert who works passionately to recover and share cultural knowledge with present...

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I just uploaded “Session 3” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/410039911

Jarrak: Our languages journey through the 00s till today

Panel three – Chaired by Annalee Pope June Sculthorpe was the first manager of the palawa kani language program in Tasmania. June and the team at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre are pioneering...

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I just uploaded “Wiradjuri Wednesday” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/403966227

Wiradjuri Wednesday

Aaron Ellis, Wiradjuri Language teacher, explains the work they are doing for the delivery of remote language classes during the First Languages Australia Zoom meeting "Langauge Classes at a distan...

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Our Marrin Gamu song competition with ABC Education is on again. Check out this beautiful #Kunwinjka entry from Jabiru Area School submitting last year. #firstlangauges #IYIL19 vimeo.com/231652723

Jabiru Area School song in Kunwinjku

This is the children of Jabiru Area School. Year 1/2 students singing in Kunwinjku language. Students from the Jabiru Area school were involved in all areas of this video production.

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Young Wirdajuri Champion, Jason O'Neil, has graduated from law and is now chairperson of Ngalaya the peak body for First Nations lawyers and law students in what is now called New South Wales. Well done Jason and all involved! Ngalaya Indigenous Corporation #firstlanguages
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Bond University offers a range of full and part scholarships, bursaries and grants to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. In 2018, 9 scholarships were awarded to Indigenous students... bond.edu.au/scholarship/bond…

Nyombil Centre - Scholarships

Every year, Bond University offers a range of full and part-fee scholarships to outstanding school-leavers and mature age applicants who have excelled academically or through extracurricular engage...

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Ngarinyman community members and the University of Queensland invite you to the Brisbane launch of the Ngarinyman dictionary. Date: Tuesday, 2 July, 2019 Time: 5:30pm to... aiatsis.eventsair.com/2019-a…
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 50 and and learns Yuwi! Congratulations to the Yuibera and Yuwibara communities of Mackay, and the languages team at State Library of... abc.net.au/news/2019-06-03/v…

The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 50 and gets an Indigenous language translation

An Aboriginal language that only three years ago was considered 'virtually extinct' now has a recorded vocabulary of more than 1,000 words and its own translation of the classic children's book The...

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For those of you in Sydney... How does language determine what we know or how we experience the world? As the online realm increasingly converges with our offline experiences, it raises... sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/s…
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Congratulations to Sophia Mung and Stephen Morelli who have been jointly awarded the Patji-Dawes Award – Australia’s premier award for... dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ne…
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Indigenous linguist and translator, Elizabeth Ellis, is working at ANU to document the various forms of her language Ngaanyatjarra, a Western Desert dialect, and its ‘verbal arts’. One of these is a fully-formed auxiliary sign... reporter.anu.edu.au/mother-t…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th Biennial Colloquium of LCNAU Deadline: 10 June 2019 Conference: 27-29 November 2019, University of Western Australia The Fifth Biennial Colloquium of the Languages & Cultures Network of Australian Universities will be held at... lcnau2019.com.au/
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Participate in the MK study to show how important language and culture are to health and wellbeing. nit.com.au/mk-survey-asks-an… nit.com.au/mk-survey-asks-an…
Looking back at these wonderful profiles published by NITV in 2017. #languagelegends #firstlanguages #ourlanguagesmatter #IYIL2019 sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017… sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017…

11 people elevating Indigenous languages

We look at 11 people working towards revitalising their communities languages.

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First Languages Aust retweeted
Geneva Worldwide@GenevaWorldwide
6 Jul 2018
Kids are keeping Aboriginal language alive! #FridayFeeling #AboriginalLanguage #Indigenous #IndigenousLanguage #EducationandArts #LanguageNews ow.ly/Higt30kPFGM

Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they are

Schools across the country are working with their local Indigenous communities to help protect Australia's first languages through the simple act of singing.

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Annie Kia@AnnieKia
5 Oct 2018
“Yanyuwa is a beautiful, poetic language... As we sailed, clouds cast their shadows on the sea’s surface. “This is narnu ngawurrwurra” I repeated the words, feeling their weight & resonance” #AboriginalLanguage bbc.com/travel/story/2018042…
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