Beryl Carmichael is the last of her family to sing the Ngiyampaa birth song. The birth song has been handed down from her Grandmother to her Mother and now Beryl is the last of her family to sing the Ngiyampaa song.
Produced by Mungo Youth Project 2014
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A Yorta Yorta elder films an ABC Open Video Postcard on a smartphone and blogs about her ancestral language.
My grandmother was one of the last Yorta Yorta speakers. She taught Yorta Yorta language at Worowa College in Healesville, Victoria. At some stage I undertook the …
First Languages Australia short with Alfred Grey Junior speaking about the Gunggay language.
First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first …
This is a story about a dynamic group of women who are reviving the GunaiKurnai language throughout East Gippsland in Victoria: Lynnette Solomon-Dent, Dr Doris Paton and Hollie Johnson.
Dr Paton explains that not everything in her language can be directly translated into …
First Languages Australia short with Suzy Holland speaking Bunganditj
This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.
Western Desert Verbal Arts Project Collection
From 2012 - 2017 Ngaatjatjarra linguist Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis worked with Inge Kral and Jennifer Green to document the endangered verbal arts of the Australian Western Desert.
The Western Desert dialects spoken in the …
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