#gamilaraay

[bimdraws]

Okayyy Langblr folks, once again I need your help. Does anyone have resources, specifically dictionaries, on Indigenous Australian languages? I'm looking for LGBT+ vocabulary but at this point, any dictionary to read through would be of great help. Thank you!

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Knight of Wands. Art by Lisa Hunt, from the Animals Divine Tarot.

Yhi

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[linguaphiliax]

Despite there being hundreds of Indigenous Australian languages, the phonetics of them all follow a very similar logical consistency.

Here’s another of my attempts at showing people how amazing Australian languages are, and if you want to see more... well, you’re on social media, so I’m assuming you know what to do.

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Endangered Languages Challenge: Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay/Yuwaalayaay

Name: Gamilaraay also Goomeroi; Kamilaroi; Gamilaroi

Genealogical Affiliation: Pama-Nyungan

Dialects: Yuwaalaraay; Yuwaaliyaay (Euahlayi); Gunjbaraay; Gawambaraay; Wirray Wirray (Wiriwiri); Walaraay

Location: Central-Northern New South Wales, Australia

Number of Speakers: 105 with revitalisation efforts

Why is the language endangered? Due to negative impacts of colonisation, especially in central NSW where there was frequent frontier violence at contact and large numbers of Aboriginal children forcibly removed from families, thus severing kinship ties and connection to communities. Alongside dispossession of land, and Australian government policies of assimilation and systemic cultural genocide.

Speaker Group: Members of the Gamilaraay Nation have proactively been involved in language maintenance and revitalisation efforts for a number of years. yuwaalaraay.com is a website that speakers and Language Knowledge Holders have created. It has an extensive collection of resources for language education. Gamilaraay is taught in schools and TAFE.

Media/Literature/Instruction:

There’s a Gamilaraay Dictionary that was published. It is available as an electronic resource as well (below is the copy a mate of mine, a Gamilaraay woman, gave me many years ago):

There are a number of children’s books written in Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay/Yuwaalayaa

Artwork by Arkeria Rose Armstrong

References and Resources:

Ash, A., Giacon, J. and Lissarrague, A. eds., 2003. Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay & Yuwaalayaay dictionary. IAD Press.

Austin, P., 1993. A REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF GAMILARAAY, NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Five Senses Education

https://yuwaalaraay.com/online-resources/

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Gandaarr

the other side of river

[linguaphiliax]

A preview of Minority Language Report; a web-series that takes a look at languages which don't get a lot of attention. This is the introduction to  the Gamilaraay episode. (EDIT: The video is now complete; you can watch it on my main YouTube channel)

[linguaphiliax]

I thought I might as well say this now - I'm going to be uploading language-related videos over the next few months, including the latest episode of Minority Language Report, where I'll be talking about Northern Sami (davvisámegiella). So, if you're interested, be sure to turn your notifications on to watch them as soon as they're released!

You can also follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LPhiliax