Author : Nick Thieberger
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN :
Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780729800518
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN :
General information and bibliography for Western Australian languages of South-East, South-West, Moora to Gascoyne, Gascoyne River to Hedland, Hedland to Kimberley and Western Desert, includes post-contact languages Aboriginal and Kriol, an annotated bibliography of Western Australian Aboriginal languages and alternative spellings of language names.
Author : William McGregor
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780729800518
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134396023
The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.
Author :
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0855752734
An excellent introduction to the complicated issues of language reconstruction, this concise guide explores languages that are no longer spoken or those that are spoken by only a few people. Each contributor works through some of the complex issues vital to language workers in an accessible, easy-to-read style, and exercises throughout the book provide immediate ways to put the ideas into practice and experience the rewards and frustrations of this kind of language work.
Author : James William Wafer
Publisher : Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
The handbook is a guide to Aboriginal languages, with illustrative vocabularies. It is divided into two parts: the first part, which includes maps, is a survey of the Indigenous languages of NSW and the ACT, giving information about dialects, locations, and resources available for language revitalisation; the second part provides word-lists in practical spelling for 42 distinct language varieties. There is also useful information on contact languages, sign languages and kinship classification, as well as an appendix on placenames. The handbook is a valuable reference and educational resource, useful to Aboriginal people who want to revitalise their language.
Author : Joyce Hudson
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Australian languages
ISBN :
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110819724
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
