First Languages Aust

A collation of Aboriginal language news stories from around Australia. Indigenous language.

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I just uploaded “Working with speakers to record natural speech” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/Mmi1ChhdlB

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I just uploaded “Parts of speech for language workers” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/GqRaToZ7OO

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I just uploaded “Transcribing for Language Workers” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/I9oseiFJPD

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I just uploaded “Session 1_1” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/1WrDGO4N1M

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I just uploaded “Session 2_1” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/EIwZs6LNMK

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I just uploaded “Session 3” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/1qkxXFbjpw

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I just uploaded “Wiradjuri Wednesday” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/tC5CaSo71L

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Our Marrin Gamu song competition with ABC Education is on again.

Check out this beautiful #Kunwinjka entry from Jabiru Area School submitting last year.

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#IYIL19 https://t.co/oRp8O0vnKw

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Young Wirdajuri Champion, Jason O'Neil, has graduated from law and is now chairperson of Ngalaya the peak body for First Nations lawyers and law students in what is now called New South Wales.

Well done Jason and all involved!

Ngalaya Indigenous Corporation

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Bond University offers a range of full and part scholarships, bursaries and grants to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. In 2018, 9 scholarships were awarded to Indigenous students... https://t.co/Fs5WsPENdA

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Ngarinyman community members and the University of Queensland invite you to the Brisbane launch of the Ngarinyman dictionary.

Date: Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
Time: 5:30pm to... https://t.co/XWJM5njSpM

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 50 and and learns Yuwi!

Congratulations to the Yuibera and Yuwibara communities of Mackay, and the languages team at State Library of... https://t.co/6bozXJ3B00

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For those of you in Sydney...

How does language determine what we know or how we experience the world?

As the online realm increasingly converges with our offline experiences, it raises... https://t.co/1OGtyblNAK

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Congratulations to Sophia Mung and Stephen Morelli who have been jointly awarded the Patji-Dawes Award – Australia’s premier award for... https://t.co/Lk2H18cE50

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Indigenous linguist and translator, Elizabeth Ellis, is working at ANU to document the various forms of her language Ngaanyatjarra, a Western Desert dialect, and its ‘verbal arts’.

One of these is a fully-formed auxiliary sign... https://t.co/zczh4PLOaG

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th Biennial Colloquium of LCNAU
Deadline: 10 June 2019

Conference: 27-29 November 2019, University of Western Australia

The Fifth Biennial Colloquium of the Languages & Cultures Network of Australian Universities will be held at... https://t.co/bQMOm9MzCU

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Participate in the MK study to show how important language and culture are to health and wellbeing.

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Looking back at these wonderful profiles published by NITV in 2017.

#languagelegends
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#ourlanguagesmatter
#IYIL2019

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Kids are keeping Aboriginal language alive! #FridayFeeling #AboriginalLanguage #Indigenous #IndigenousLanguage #EducationandArts #LanguageNews
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“Yanyuwa is a beautiful, poetic language...

As we sailed, clouds cast their shadows on the sea’s surface. “This is narnu ngawurrwurra”

I repeated the words, feeling their weight & resonance”

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