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Topic: Badimaya language


  
  Australian Aboriginal languages at AllExperts
Too little is known of their languages to be able to classify them, although they seem to have had some phonological similarities with languages of the mainland.
In some languages the persons in between the accusative and ergative inflections (such as second person, or third-person human) may be tripartite: that is, marked overtly as either ergative or accusative in transitive clauses, but not marked as either in intransitive clauses.
A language which displays the full range of stops and laterals is Kalkutungu, which has labial p, m; "dental" th, nh, lh; "alveolar" t, n, l; "retroflex" rt, rn, rl; "palatal" ty, ny, ly; and velar k, ng.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/au/australian_aboriginal_languages.htm   (1632 words)

  
  Articles - Australian Aboriginal languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Too little is known of their languages to be able to classify them, although they seem to have had some phonological similarities with languages of the mainland.
The Australian languages form a language area or Sprachbund, sharing much of their vocabulary and having similarly unusual phonologies across the entire continent.
In some languages the persons in between the accusative and ergative inflections (such as second person, or third-person human) may be tripartite: that is, marked overtly as either ergative or accusative in transitive clauses, but not marked as either in intransitive clauses.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Australian_Aboriginal_languages   (1508 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Languages with trochaic (strong-weak) rhythm are characterized by evenness of duration between the elements of a foot.
Hopi, an iambic language, sacrifices extrametricality and foot well-formedness by incorporating the extrametrical syllable as a weak syllable in a trochaic foot, e.g.
Trochaic languages, in which feet naturally pick out the initial and/or prefinal syllable (the latter being the rightmost non-final syllable, see above), are better equipped to promoting iambic languages, which select the second s yllable of the word, one that is not peripheral.
pascal.kgw.tu-berlin.de /gnom/Lehre/hs-rhythm/literatur/hayes.rtf   (11346 words)

  
 ietf-ltru-4645bis-01.txt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
New Subtags For each language in [ISO639-3] that was not already represented by a primary language subtag in the Language Subtag Registry, a new subtag was added to the Registry, using the [ISO639-3] code element as the value for the Subtag field and each of the [ISO639-3] names as a separate Description field.
Modified Subtags For each language in [ISO639-3] that was already represented by a primary language subtag in the Language Subtag Registry, Description fields were added as necessary to reflect all names listed for that language (inverted and uninverted) in either [iso-fdis-639-3_20061114] or [iso-fdis-639-3_Name_Index_20061114].
The sign language tags registered prior to [RFC4646] remain an exception to the general principle that the meaning of a non- grandfathered tag can be derived from its component subtags.
bgp.potaroo.net /ietf/idref/draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis   (1718 words)

  
 Bibliography for Additional Languages
This is a bibliography of languages that could be used to fill "open" spaces on maps.
Verheijen, Jilis A. The Sama/Bajau Language in the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Capell, A. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of Sonsorol-Tobi.
linguistics.buffalo.edu /people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas.bib2   (2066 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Maya language
Maya language (Brazil), an unclassified language of Brazil that may be related to the Panoan languages
Badimaya language, an aboriginal language of Australia, also known as "Parti-Maya"
Bali language (Nigeria), a Niger-Congo language of Nigeria
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Maya_language   (116 words)

  
 Pama-Nyungan languages at AllExperts
Hale realised that of the Aboriginal Australian languages, one relatively closely-interrelated family had spread and proliferated over most of the continent, while approximately a dozen other families were concentrated along the North coast.
The other language families indigenous to the continent of Australia are occasionally referred to, by exclusion, as Non Pama-Nyungan languages, though this is not a proper taxonomic term.
Although counting languages is not, in general, a well-defined operation, there are on the order of hundreds of Pama-Nyungan languages.
en.allexperts.com /e/p/pa/pama-nyungan_languages.htm   (551 words)

  
 Some 2000 Language Reference Resources
In H. McKaughan (Ed.), The Languages of the Eastern Family of the East New Guinea Highland Stock, Volume 1 of Anthropological Studies in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, pp.
The Warrnambool Language: A consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool area of the Western District of Victoria based on nineteenth-century sources, Volume 544 of Pacific Linguistics.
Blust, R. Sketches of the morphology and phonology of bornean languages 1: Uma juman (kayan).
www.cs.chalmers.se /~harald2/n.htm   (6831 words)

  
 4.3.2 BADIMAYA
Dunn (1982) says that the descendants of Badimaya speakers now speak Watjarri, the dominant language of the region.
Gratte, S.G. Notes and audiotapes on the Badimaya language, Geraldton Historical Society, Geraldton.
Kingsford, R. Yamadyi law: the continuing significance of traditional Aboriginal culture in the Murchison Region, Western Australia, MA thesis, UWA.
coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/oldWA/4_3_2.htm   (335 words)

  
 Indigenous Languages Directory
Language Courses: Short courses in Central Australian Aboriginal languages are run throughout the year for the general public.
The Kimberley Language Resource Centre (KLRC) was established in 1984 to provide a forum for Aboriginal people in the Kimberley Region to make decisions about language policy and to help Aboriginal people work on their own languages.
The Noongar Language and Culture Centre is governed by a regional management committee which are residents of the regions whish constitutes the boundaries of the Noongar Region.
www.fatsil.org /links/nild.htm   (3208 words)

  
 DS Davidson
Some information on the geographical location of some of the languages is contained on file slips 264-306, but there is no details of date or place of interviews, nor of any personal names.
Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberley Region, and Janet Sharp's Nyangumarta Grammar (PL 556, p.31).
There are references to a language numbered 23, not in the key supplied by DSD.
www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/dsd/vocabs.html   (566 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:BIA
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
Linguists at Yamaji Language Centre working on a draft dictionary and wordlist.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=BIA   (51 words)

  
 files language found by findoz.com
Here are new language files for version 4.13 (in addition to the 35 languages already included in the program): Portuguese domains files, both Brazilian and European versions.
Note that custom language definition files (files of the form -cust.lse) are loaded after the primary language definition file (.lse) and are...
The C language definitions are in the header files elf_abi.h...
www.findoz.com /australia/f/files/language/readme.htm   (1109 words)

  
 IGI Publishing: Additional Information
Traditional knowledge and language resources are often stored away in museums and libraries, placed there by anthropologists and linguists in the past, but largely inaccessible to the Indigenous owners.
Given the crisis in many Indigenous languages today, systems developers and linguists are teaming up to design programs to help revitalize these threatened languages and ensure that the younger generation have the opportunity to learn them.
It is helping to revitalize a language which had ceased to function in daily communication and, by incorporating best practice methodologies of digital preservation, is ensuring that the language materials will be an enduring and permanent resource for the community.
www.igi-pub.com /books/additional.asp?id=6097&title=Preface&col=preface   (5128 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Australian Aboriginal languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A language which displays the full range of stops and laterals is Kalkutungu, which has labial p, m; "dental" th, nh, lh; "alveolar" t, n, l; "retroflex" rt, rn, rl; "palatal" ty, ny, ly; and velar k, ng.
For convenience, the rest of the languages, all spoken in the far north, are commonly lumped together as "Non-Pama Nyungan", although they do not constitute a genetic family.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Australian Aboriginal languages; all previous versions may be viewed here.
baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Australian_Aboriginal_languages   (1645 words)

  
 [No title]
I took Matthew Dryer’s database of language locations, http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas.locations and started adding languages and language varieties to it.
I follow the same principle as he did when he assigned a particular location to a language: a language is assigned to a geographical point, defined by latitude and longitude.
The latitude and longitude are in decimal degrees and minutes (Degrees,Minutes); the minus sign (-) is used to indicate South for latitudes, and West for longitudes.
www.ling.su.se /staff/ljuba/DryerWALSCoordinates01.txt   (140 words)

  
 Western Desert Language Workshop
It is expected that if a plausible subrouping can be established, inferences may be drawn from the spatial distribution of the subgrouped languages as to the plausibe location of the relevant proto-languages, and hence the possible route of linguistic expansion of the WD language itself.
It is vital to establish a classification (subgrouping) within Nyungic (the western branch of Pama-Nyungan) to establish the position of Western Desert and what are its closest 'sister' and 'cousin' languages since, it is argued, the WD homeland is likely to be in or near to the territory one of these closely related sub-groups.
A semantic generalisation is that, unlike Ngumbin languages, the WD terminology appears not to include separate stems for 'upstream', 'downstream'.
www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/WD/prog.html   (2293 words)

  
 Additional Languages
This set of additional languages are ones spoken in areas where language density is less and which are ones that might be added to maps where contributors feel there is too much of a gap on the map, especially if a given map cannot include languages from the 200-language sample for some reason.
We are providing a map showing the location of these languages, coded with 3-letter codes, a list of these languages with the codes, and a bibliography of sources for these languages.
Some of these languages are too close to languages in the 200-language sample to be included on maps and can only be included if the relevant language from the 200-language is not included on the map for some reason.
wings.buffalo.edu /linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas.add   (170 words)

  
 EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
www.everytongue.com   (531 words)

  
 Dreaming artist roster
Lorna Napurrula Fencer spent many years painting ceremonial body designs and did not begin to produce works on canvas until she was in her sixties.
A senior member of the Anmatyerre language group, Kngwarreye began to paint on canvas in her late seventies, after decades of ritual artistic activity.
Her work received immediate attention from critics, collectors, and fellow artists alike and she was represented posthumously in the 1997 Venice Biennale.
hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu /exhibitions/dreaming/dreamingartistro.html   (2206 words)

  
 Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - @_ Die Welt, Le Monde, The World - Sprache, Langue, Language
Through interviews and prepared talks, experts analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language traversing such linguistic territory as bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words.
Lingua Franca also analyses the language employed in our public debates about controversial issues such as Aboriginal land rights, tax reform, and the meaning of the word "sorry".
Languages of the world; Country index with maps; Language names; Language codes; Language families; Introduction to Etymology; Sources of First Names; Elements in First Names; The Most Popular Names; Namesakes
www.wortherkunft.de /~e/@_/@_-sprach.html   (1114 words)

  
 RSPAS Linguistics Seminars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It then tries to draw inferences from the spatial distribution of the subgrouped languages as to the plausible location of the relevant proto-languages, and hence the possible route of linguistic expansion of the WD language itself.
The language is one of the basic units of analysis in historical and areal linguistics (it is assumed by the genetic model), and yet this idea is apparently impossible to formally define.
Although the singer had to learn the poetic language which would one day be the vehicle for his songs, there was no need to learn 'typical scenes', for they were already part of his knowledge store, as scripts.
rspas.anu.edu.au /linguistics/abstract1.html   (1022 words)

  
 [Langgrad] two linguist jobs, Yamaji Language Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
>The Yamaji Languages Aboriginal Corporation (Yamaji Language Centre) >is seeking to employ two full-time qualified Linguists to continue >work in the preservation, maintenance and revival of Indigenous >languages in the Yamaji region of WA.
To continue ongoing >linguistic research into the Badimaya language, in a culturally >appropriate way.
Essential: >*Qualifications in Linguistics, or demonstrated skills and >experience in Linguistics and Linguistic fieldwork >*Experience in working with Aboriginal people >*A commitment to the preservation of Aboriginal languages >*A commitment to the principles of Self-determination and Aboriginal control >*Ability to work unsupervised >*"A" class driver's license > >B.
mailman.anu.edu.au /pipermail/langgrad/2004-February/000033.html   (178 words)

  
 ISO 639 code tables
This page offers a combined view of the language code tables of ISO 639 parts 1, 2, and 3.
Viewing by name will enable you to browse for any name associated with a specific identifier, including an inverted form of a name (e.g., the code element id=[aaq] "Eastern Abnaki" will also be found under "Abnaki, Eastern").
The elements may also be ordered by scope of denotation or type of language.
www.sil.org /iso639-3/codes.asp?order=name&name=name&letter=b   (165 words)

  
 Artist
To this day my grandmother can tell me the story of how she was born because she says that it goes to show that she will always be around.
My grandmother is the matriarch to about 40 women and men in our relatively small Badimaya family.
In 1993 she had a crippling stroke and lost her speech, her ability to write or remember some things.
gallery.discoverymedia.com.au /magnt/artist.asp?id=66   (198 words)

  
 AIATSIS - Language bibliographies
Click here if you would like more information about how these bibliographies were compiled.
Please note that searching Mura® using a language name in the language field will retrieve records for both the language and the People.
This means that the records will also be about language, history, culture or a combination of both.
www.aiatsis.gov.au /library/subject_guides__bibliographies/language_bibliographies   (203 words)

  
 Australian Aboriginal languages information - Search.com
In the few cases where fricatives do occur, they developed recently through the lenition (weakening) of stops, and are therefore non-sibilants like [ð] rather than sibilants like [s] which are so much more common elsewhere in the world.
Gunwinyguan (15-17 languages in six branches, including the Maran languages and the Kungarakany isolate)
Pama-Nyungan proper (approximately 175 languages in 14 extant and numerous extinct branches)
www.search.com /reference/Australian_Aboriginal_languages   (1548 words)

  
 E-MELD - List of Nearly Extinct Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clicking on a language name will link you to the Ethnologue entry on this language.
Clicking on a subgroup will bring up the languages of that subgroup.
Clicking on a family name will generate a family tree for that language family.
emeld.org /features/get-nearly-extinct.cfm   (59 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 15.589: Aboriginal Languages: Linguist, Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Position 1-Badimaya Purpose: To complete research towards the publication and printing of a Badimaya wordlist and dictionary.
Position 2 -- Warriyangka and Ngarlawangga Linguist Purpose: To continue linguistic research into Ngarlawangga and Warriyangka languages in a culturally appropriate way.
Essential: * Qualifications in Linguistics, or demonstrated skills and experience in Linguistics and Linguistic fieldwork * Experience in working with Aboriginal people * A commitment to the preservation of Aboriginal languages * A commitment to the principles of Self-determination and Aboriginal control * Ability to work unsupervised * "A" class driver's license B.
www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/15/15-589.html   (183 words)

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