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Wadawurrung language: Wurdi Youang
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Kuarka dorla
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Lal Lal
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Modewarre
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Painting Perta Tyurretye
Gloria Panka is the granddaughter of the famous watercolour artist Albert Namatjira (deceased), who was awarded a coronation medal from Queen Elizabeth in 1953 for his extraordinary talent. Gloria and her grandfather Albert come from the mission Ntaria also known as …
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Sprung with Durris
Liz and Lyiata roleplay a scenario using typical Moree Aboriginal English language.
List of Moree Aboriginal English:
mirraybirrays… girls and boys / children
corroboree… dance
yilay… hey
gookintji… black
gutchinas… kids
myall… act stupid/ shame …
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Keeping an ancient language alive
A few people speak the Indigenous Djabuguy language fluently. Michael Quinn, an Englishman, is one of them.
It was 1986 when he arrived in the Far North Queensland town of Kuranda with his young family. Before this he had been living in Sydney where he studied a four year …
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My pride and joy stick
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 …
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Australian animals
John Waterton, who teaches the Bidyara and Gungabula languages in the community of Woorabinda, tells us the names of some native Australian animals.
Produced by John Waterton and Lisa Clarke
This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which …
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Bidyara and Gungabula
John Waterton teaches the Bidyara and Gungabula languages in the central Queensland town of Woorabinda.
The languages were thought to be lost for many years, but through the hard work of people like John, they are being reintroduced back into the community.
Here, John takes …
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Walking in two worlds and learning to speak Australian
Across Australia there are hundreds of different Aboriginal languages, some that are still spoken fluently across generations, and others that are endangered, and are in the process of being revived or preserved.
But what’s involved in keeping these ancient languages alive, …
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Give me five in Gamilaraay
Speaking in Gamilaraay lingo is a top priority for the students and teachers at Toomelah Public School, just south of the QLD/NSW border.
Guided by Carl McGrady and Sue Swann, students learn the Gamilaraay language alongside subjects like Maths and English.
How do they …
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Looking after Red Lily Njanjma Rangers
In our local language of Kunwinjku, we say "karribolknahnan kunred". It means caring for country.
Looking after our country near Gunbalanya, in Western Arnhem Land, is a big part of our job as rangers.
Here is a little story about some of what we do. In particular, it's …
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Paul Carmody Sharing language on Jarowair and Giabal land
Paul Carmody is a teacher at Amaroo Outdoor Education Centre in Kleinton, southern Queensland.
Located on Jarowair and Giabal land, the centre welcomes more than 5000 students through the gates each year.
Paul is neither a Jarowair nor Giabal man.
His father - the …
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Wajarri wangga bagardi gula! Wajarri in your pocket
The Wajarri language, once spoken throughout the Murchison region of Western Australia, now has fewer than 50 fluent speakers. The Wajarri Dictionary App, developed by the Bundiyarra - Irra Wangga Language Centre, contains almost 2000 entries from the Wajarri language dictionary. …
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The Moolyawongk
The Walkandi-Woni Art Group from the Riverland of South Australia is celebrating their Indigenous heritage and at the same time continuing a long tradition of oral storytelling.
It's sad to say that colonisation has resulted in the loss of hundreds of Indigenous languages in …
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Near or Far
According to Suellyn Tighe, a Gamilaraay woman from Coonabarabran, the modern Aboriginal story is a difficult one.
To keep her language current, to keep Aboriginal youth engaged, she believes we need to present her language in a modern day setting whilst maintaining the …
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Learning language with Aunty Irene
It’s story time at the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy school in Hopevale and Aunty Irene Hammett is armed with her Guugu Yimidhirr language books.
She wrote them based on her and her family’s childhoods. They tell tales of adventures on country - through the bush, …
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The language teachers
Across Australia there are hundreds of different Aboriginal languages, some that are still spoken fluently across generations, and others that are endangered, and are in the process of being revived or preserved.
But what’s involved in keeping these ancient languages alive, …
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Unity via translation and the power of language
Across Australia there are hundreds of different Aboriginal languages, some that are still spoken fluently across generations, and others that are endangered, and are in the process of being revived or preserved.
But what’s involved in keeping these ancient languages alive, …
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