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	Warlpiri language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is one of the Ngarrkic languages of the large Southwest branch of the Pama-Nyungan family, and is one of the largest aboriginal languages in Australia in terms of number of speakers.
		Warlpiri verbs are built from a few hundred verb roots, distributed among five conjugation classes.
		Warlpiri nouns are assembled from thousands of roots, with a rich array of derivational techniques such as compounding and derivational suffixes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warlpiri_language (1383 words)

	Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		The common ancestor of the languages belonging to a language family is known as its protolanguage.
		Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_families_and_languages (1498 words)

	Warlpiri Sign Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Warlpiri Sign Language is a sign language used by the Warlpiri, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia.
		As a result, it is typical for Warlpiri women to have a better command of the sign language than men, and among older women at Yuendumu, Warlpiri Sign Language is in constant use, whether they are under a speech ban or not.
		British linguist Adam Kendon (1988) argues that Warlpiri Sign Language is best understood as a manual representation of the spoken Warlpiri language (a "Manually Coded Language"), rather than a separate language; individual signs represent morphemes from spoken Warlpiri, which are expressed in the same word order as the spoken langauge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warlpiri_Sign_Language (467 words)

	Lingua Franca - 24/01/2004: Aboriginal Languages: Why The Struggle To Keep Them Alive?
		Language, in other words, is more than language, more than mere cultural identity; it is social order and self-belief, and the backbone of a distinct philosophy.
		Its experts compile and publish language dictionary encyclopaedias that are rather like great arks of desert culture: survival capsules with collections of beliefs and usages embedded in their pages.
		'Language is my life,' she told me, 'Arrernte language; I live it, I am it.' Arrernte, she acknowledges, is one of the hardest of languages to learn, 'with its double-Reader: words, its prestopped nasals and its sneezing sounds.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s1008591.htm (1704 words)

	Language Acquisition
		Human language is made possible by special adaptations of the human mind and body that occurred in the course of human evolution, and which are put to use by children in acquiring their mother tongue.
		Language B can be hypothesized at any point, and confirmed whenever the child hears a sentence with an agreement in it or disconfirmed when the child hears a sentence without agreement.
		Georgetown Monographs on Language and Linguistics, 22, 1-31.
	www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~harnad/Papers/Py104/pinker.langacq.html (18914 words)

	UG and Language Variation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		There is a clear explanatory tension, however, between the need to account for the possibility of language acquisition, on the one hand, and the requirement to account for the full range of language variation, on the other.
		Many of you will have been exposed to a foreign language at some point in your life and be familiar with limited cases of word order variation across languages.
		Languages like German or Greek constitute intermediate cases, with German closer to English and Greek perhaps closer to Warlpiri.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/hans/courses/syntax1a/sentence_structure/ug_and_variation.html (888 words)

	CLC \| Our Culture
		The main language spoken in the Pitjantjatjara Lands (commonly referred to as the 'Pit Lands') in the north-west of SA in communities including Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon, Amata in SA, Wingellina (Irrunytju) in WA and around Docker River (Ka lt ukatjara), Mu t itjulu and Areyonga (Utju) in NT.
		The neighbouring languages are Anmatyerr to the south, Alyawarr to the east and north-east, Warlpiri to the west and north-west and Warumungu to the north (Turpin 2000:1-2)
		Warlpiri is the main language group in the Ngarrkic family.
	www.clc.org.au /ourculture/language.asp (3101 words)

	Flinders University: News, events and notices - A tale of a tail in its second language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The program was developed at the request of the Warlpiri people who were concerned that their language, like many other Indigenous Australian languages, would die out.
		Dr Nicholls and the Warlpiri team of assistant teachers, literacy workers, and volunteers from the community decided to begin by creating Warlpiri books for the preschoolers before moving on to more lengthy and difficult books for older children.
		She combined the format with a narrative which used animals familiar to the Warlpiri children - goannas, kangaroos, wallabies, and the roaming feral goats, donkeys and pigs.
	www.flinders.edu.au /news/articles?fj17v10s03 (594 words)

	Lingua Franca - 20/02/1999: Bi-Lingual Education Programs in Aboriginal Schools...
		Elders of the affected Aboriginal communities, such as the Warlpiri at Yuendumu, 250 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs, are threatening to boycott the schools in protest.
		It was universal experience, he said, that if literacy were established in the mother tongue, the language of the heart, it was easier to switch to another language, in the case of Aboriginal Australians, English.
		One very young Warlpiri mother, still in her teens, whose child was in the class, and who was holding her newborn baby, was trying valiantly to hold the fort.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s685319.htm (1783 words)

	Warlpiri language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Warlpiri is part of the Yapa/Ngarrkic group of Pama-Nyungan languages.
		The traditional land of the Warlpiri is in the Northern Territory of Australia to the north and west of Alice Springs, and the largest settlement is Yuendumu.
		A spelling system for the language was first devised by Lothar Jagst during the 1950s and has been revised slightly since then.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/warlpiri (264 words)

	Adam Kendon - Publications
		Kendon, A. The sign language of the women of Yuendumu: A preliminary report on the structure of Warlpiri sign language.
		Kendon, A. Language and Gesture: Unity or Duality.
		In Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin, eds., Rethinking Context: Language as an interactive phenomenon.
	www.ciolek.com /SPEC/kendon.html (2315 words)

	Jane Simpson's Homepage
		Luise Hercus and David Nash) on comparison and reconstruction of languages spoken in the centre of Australia.
		Christopher Manning on a computer interface for the Warlpiri Dictionary Project being coordinated by Mary Laughren, including compiling an image bank, as well as testing the use of the interface in other languages such as Ngardi.
		The grammar of Adang : a Papuan language spoken on the Island of Alor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
	www.arts.usyd.edu.au /departs/linguistics/ling/people/js.html (1830 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Interviews with indigenous language workers across remote Australia conducted by the HES during the past year paint a national portrait of deep linguistic vulnerability: the younger the Aborigines in bush communities are, the less likely they are to speak their languages well.
		Jeanie Herbert, the dynamic Warlpiri language queen from Lajamanu in the NT's Tanami Desert, is blunt about what needs to happen: "It's about time governments recognised that indigenous languages are really Australian and that English is just the language of the dominant society.
		Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage, the performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, as well as knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe and traditional craftsmanship, now benefit from an international legal instrument to safeguard intangible heritage through cooperation.
	www.ogmios.org /223.htm (3253 words)

	Australian Indigenous languages
		Topics to be discussed: Language acquisition; multilingualism; code-switching; language variation: social and regional; language standardisation and non-standard dialects; language change; conversational style; language as a marker of social identity; language change; pidgins, creoles and Aboriginal English; sign languages; written languages; literacy; language in education; language and culture; language and the law.
		Research is conducted at Yaruman and Balgo where children speak an Aboriginal language as their mother tongue and are attending a school where both the Aboriginal language and English are taught.
		It addresses the large variety of Aboriginal languages in Western Australia and acknowledges the desire of Aboriginal people for the languages of their heritage to be taught in primary schools.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/LangHome.html (1977 words)

	2003 Alumni Awards presented at Homecoming Dinner
		The Warlpiri language is spoken by the aboriginal people in Australia.
		After over 20 years of work, the Swartz’s time and effort translating the New Testament and part of the Old Testament into the Warlpiri language culminated at the Warlpiri Bible Dedication in October, 2001, when the Warlpiri Bible was presented to those for whom it was intended.
		The service of praise continued and boxes containing the Bible were opened to a pressing crowd ready to buy their first Bible in the language they knew and understood.
	www.huntington.edu /NEWS/0304/alumniawards.htm (1169 words)

	Yilpinji, Love, Magic and Ceremony - Essay by Christine Nicholls, page 2 - Aboriginal Art Exhibition - Aboriginal Art ...
		While the stomach is the principal seat of the emotions for the Warlpiri and the Kukatja, the throat (‘waninja’) is the primary location of sexual love and attraction.
		Called 'Yilpinji' in the Warlpiri language, these ceremonies are enacted separately by men and women as a means of attracting the object of their sometimes adulterous or otherwise forbidden desire.
		For example, amongst Warlpiri and Kukatja people the 'love that dare not speak its name' may well be the love (or lust) of a son-in-law for his mother-in-law, or vice versa.
	www.aboriginalartprints.com.au /yilpinji_essay2.cfm (921 words)

	Brunson forum abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This language is studied from the two-fold perspective of establishing a linguistically and computationally sound processing model.
		This report presents a portion of Warlpiri grammar in a revised GB-based account, addressing the issues of parsability, as well as more theoretical syntactic issues, that together force a reassessment and parametrization of certain linguistic principles.
		The complementary nature of the syntax and morpho-syntax in the satisfaction of syntactic principles as well as in the construction of syntactic representations is addressed, as is the crucial relevance of prosodic information for preserving determinism in the parsing algorithm.
	www.cs.toronto.edu /compling/Publications/Abstracts/Theses/Brunson-thabs.html (271 words)

	Josef Meyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		I am Josef Meyer, a PhD student supervised by Robert Dale in the Language Technology Group (LTG) in the Department of Computing in the at Macquarie University.
		The group conducts research in a number of areas that relate to the problem of how to get computers to deal with human language, either by automatically generating text (or speech) in some human language, or by making use of human language input in some computer system.
		In particular the project attempted to describe a fragment of the Australian language Warlpiri within the HPSG framework, and to adapt an existing parser based on that framework to work with this description.
	www.ics.mq.edu.au /~jmeyer (1240 words)

	lit_cent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The workshop brings together about 90 Warlpiri educators, including elders, and provides professional development in the areas of Warlpiri oracy and literacy and culture programs, curriculum and policy development, mathematics teaching, song writing and other issues as they arise.
		In 2001 the Warlpiri Triangle workshop was held in Lajamanu.
		The focus of the workshop was the development of the NT Curriculum Framework - Indigenous Languages and Cultures.The workshop is a major professional development initiative for Warlpiri staff and is prioritised by participating schools.
	www.schools.nt.edu.au /lajacec/lit_cent1.html (1297 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		She talks about her language and where it is spoken in the two communities she lives in.
		A short report of Professor Tsunoda's experience in the preservation and revival of the Warrungu language of the Upper Herbert River area of north Queensland.
		Natalie Williams describes the language situation at Tennant Creek and some of her experiences.
	www.dnathan.com /VL/eMUlg_W.htm (689 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		Less than 20 languages are strong, and even these are endangered: the others have been destroyed, live in the memories of the elderly, or are being revived by their communities.
		Created and maintained by David Nathan, Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, (and formerly University of Tsukuba, Japan and University of Sydney).
		The Aboriginal Languages of Australia Virtual Library was founded on 6 January 1996.
	www.dnathan.com /VL/austLang.htm (291 words)

	Janganpa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The above ground painting represents the totem of the Janganpa of the Warlpiri language group of Central Australia.
		The following images are of a ceremony associated with this ground painting performed at Alice Springs at the Aura Congress on Friday 14 July 2000.
		The ceremony was performed when appropriate and would leave no trace in the archaeological record.
	acl.arts.usyd.edu.au /~barry/janganpa.htm (254 words)

	Heather King - THESIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		My study of the Dyirbal intonational system (King 1992, 1994a, 1994b and in press) was the first acoustic analysis of the intonation of an Aboriginal language.
		If practicable, a number of utterances are also synthesised on the computer to change the "pitch" contour and then played to suitable consultants to see how the pitch changes cause a change in their response to and/or perception of each.
		The data is then analysed to produce a model of Warlpiri intonation which includes comparisons between different types of utterances and between the speakers' gender, age group and community affiliation.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~heather/CV.html (644 words)

	Warlpiri
		Warlpiri video-conferencing; Tanami Network, a part of the
		Ted Bardo went on to record 13 versions of the song in different languages, achieving a world record!" [source] A CD has this song sung by Ted Bardo in Warlpiri, Greek, Dutch, Indonesian, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish and Chinese.
		Federal Court of Australia Re: The Attorney-General for The Northern Territory of Australia and: The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; George Brown Jungarrayi; Lawrence Kelly Jakamarra; In the Matter of the Kaytej, Warlpiri and Warlmanpa Land Claim; In the Matter of the Warlmanpa, Mudbura, Warlpiri and Warumungu Land Claim No. NSW G11 of 1986 Administrative Law
	www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/wlp (276 words)

	ART MOB
		While a rich tradition of love songs, poetry, drama and other literature exists in the English language, as shown by many of the quotations above, this exhibition demonstrates clearly that the theme of love in art is not the exclusive preserve of western art.
		Contrastingly, for the Warlpiri and the Kukatja peoples of Australia’s tanami desert region, the primary seat of the emotions is not the heart, but the stomach.
		The late Warlpiri linguist and teacher Paddy Patrick Jangala, in his quote at the beginning of this essay, provides evidence of a people in whose lives romance and sexual love play an extremely significant part.
	www.artmob.com.au /artists/yilpinji/essay.html (1692 words)

	Dorothy Napangardi
		She belongs to the Warlpiri language group, and paints in the traditional manner of the Kurrawari (dreaming).
		Living a traditional life style until the early 1960’s when her family group walked in to the pastoralist station of Mt Doreen, Dorothy was taught about her country and the Dreamtime by her mother.
		Holding a senior position in the field of traditional law within the Warlpiri society, Dorothy’s works play an integral role in the preservation and communication of her Dreamings.
	www.jintaart.com.au /bios/dorothy_n_bio.htm (497 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		A Diploma report on the Marriammun language, which is spoken mainly in the Wadeye area.
		Arnold Brown is a descendant of the Marriammu tribe and a descendant of the Stolen Generation.
		Arrernte woman Marjorie Petrick is pioneering the use of Braille to read and write the Arrernte language, supported by the Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics unit at Batchelor Institute.
	www.dnathan.com /VL/eMUstate_NT.htm (1882 words)

	Warlpiri Media Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Warlpiri Media is widely accredited as being the first community organizations to develop and facilitate video production in remote Aboriginal communities.
		I feel confident in my workplace, working on the database and proud to be part of this important project and I enjoy collaborating with other archive workers.’
		The collection consists of WMA News presented by Warlpiri speakers, recorded ceremonies, Yuendumu School ‘Country Visits’, 15 years of Yuendumu Sports Weekends and 13 episodes of the Warlpiri language children’s program ‘Manyu Wana’.
	www.warlpiri.com.au /archive (260 words)

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