Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian LanguageThis is a longitudinal study of the reclamation of the Kaurna Language, where Kaurna people are working in collaboration with linguists and educators. The book takes an ecological perspective to trace the history of Kaurna, drawing on all known sources and emerging uses in the modern period. |
Contents
Who are the Kaurna? | 3 |
Language Reclamation | 17 |
An Ecological Approach to Language Revival | 36 |
A Sociolinguistic History of Kaurna | 49 |
Decline of the Kaurna and loss of the Kaurna language | 64 |
Grammar | 93 |
Restoring and Transforming the Kaurna Language | 114 |
Grammar and syntax | 130 |
Kaurna Language Programs | 153 |
Evaluation | 170 |
The public function of Kaurna | 185 |
Language use within the Kaurna community | 200 |
Artificial pidgins and Ngarrindjeri language renewal | 215 |
The struggle for recognition empowerment and reconciliation | 229 |
Summary and Conclusions | 246 |
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Aboriginal languages Aboriginal Studies Adelaide Plains Adnyamathanha AILF Alice Rigney Amery Australian languages Berndt borrowed Cawthorne Cherie Watkins context course discussed Encounter Bay Esperanto expressions Georgina Williams grammar Hercus heritage Indigenous languages journals KACHA Kartinyeri Kaurna community Kaurna country Kaurna culture Kaurna identity Kaurna language Kaurna language programs Kaurna language revival Kaurna names Kaurna programs Kaurna songs Kaurna sources Kaurna speeches Kaurna words KL&LE Klose land language ecology language reclamation language revival learners learning Kaurna letter Lewis O'Brien lexical linguistic LOTE Maori marni missionaries Moorhouse Narungga natives neologisms ngaityo Ngarrindjeri non-Aboriginal Nukunu number of Kaurna Nunga Nunga community Nunga English Piltawodli Pitjantjatjara Point Pearce PWAC Ramindjeri Rapid Bay Raukkan recognised recorded referred Schürmann sentences Snooky South Australia South Australian Museum spellings spoken story Tauondi teaching Teichelmann texts Tindale Tjilbruke translation University of Adelaide Varcoe verb vocabulary Warra Whilst wordlist workshops Wyatt