'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.
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First Languages Australia short with Shane Blackman speaking Gurang.
The video was recorded and filmed with Indigenous men from the Barkly community of Utopia, in conjunction with traditional owner Cowboy Loy.
Harold, Kevin and Wayne role play a scenario using typical Moree Aboriginal English.
List of Moree Aboriginal English:
ngarriga… silly
birray… boy
shook (or to shake)… steal/ stole
dimba… sheep
gungis… police
bugeri… telling lies
womba…mad, …
When Aunty Lee Healy decided to make the first dictionary for the Taungurung language, she didn’t know what she was in for.
The dictionary took four years to make and Aunty Lee says, “I don’t think my mind stopped.”
“It became my passion. I would get up at 3.30 in …
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 …
First Languages Australia short with Darnell Richards speaking about the Barngarla 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 …
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