- Title
- A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
- Creator
- Wafer, Jim; Lissarrague, Amanda
- Relation
- www.muurrbay.org.au/muurrbay-resources
- Publisher
- Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Cooperative
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- New South Wales was the first part of Australia to be colonised, so the written records of the state's Indigenous languages go back more than 200 years. The handbook is a guide to Aboriginal languages, with illustrative vocabularies. It is divided into two parts: the first part, which includes maps, is a survey of the Indigenous languages of NSW and the ACT, giving information about dialects, locations, and resources available for language revitalisation; the second part provides word-lists in practical spelling for 42 distinct language varieties. There is also useful information on contact languages, sign languages and kinship classification, as well as an appendix on placenames.
- Subject
- indigenous languages; Aboriginal languages; New South Wales; Australian Capital Territory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43617
- Identifier
- uon:5692
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780977535187
- Language
- eng
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