Author :
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780729800518
Author : Nick Thieberger
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 11,84 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 :
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Page : 223 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1987
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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 : 20,38 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN :
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,85 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 :
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Page : 223 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780729800518
Author : Joyce Hudson
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Australian languages
ISBN :
Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
The Handbook volumes offer the only detailed and accurate records of many Australian languages that are extinct or on the verge of extinction. This volume provides a new introduction that discusses some of the main characteristics of Australian languages. Each grammatical sketch includes an illustrative text--demonstrating the use of the language--and a basic vocabulary listing. Also, each example is accompanied by a morpheme-by-morpheme glossary, providing a definitive account of the languages of the Aborigines of Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide.
Author : James William Wafer
Publisher : Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 50,19 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 : Peter Bindon
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781920843595
A Nyoongar Wordlist brings together in a single volume several separately published word lists for South-West Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects. Commonly these are now known collectively as 'Nyoongar', which, except for some individual words and short phrases still used in daily conversation, is largely unused. However true this may be for the whole language, there remain several hundred Nyoongar words which are preserved as place names throughout the South-West. As development advances and map revision and editing proceed, it is likely that more Nyoongar words will be used as place names and will be added to various maps of the region. Readers will also find clues to the meaning of geographical and place names throughout WA's South-West.
