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Topic: Yankunytjatjara language


In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Off-line recordings you can order - List 2 - EveryTongue.com
Xinan Guanhua, a dialect of Chinese, Mandarin language
Brazilian Portuguese, a dialect of Portuguese language
Rongmahbrogpa, a dialect of Tibetan, Amdo language
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 Language
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.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
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 Aboriginal Languages of Australia
It is speculated that there may have been around 600 Aboriginal languages prior to colonization, but many of them became extinct as the Aboriginal people were forced togive up their language and learn English.
The future of the Aboriginal languages is uncertain, but the good news is that some of them now have a written form, and the Aboriginal people as well as the Australian society are concerned about the loss of these languages.
These languages share the sound system and grammar of the standard language, but the vocabulary is different and usually very restricted.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/aboriginalLanguagesofAustralia.html   (708 words)

  
 Yanyuwa Language info here at en.my-widgets.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yanyuwa, like many Australian Aboriginal languages, is a complex agglutinative language whose grammar is pervaded by a set of sixteen noun classes, whose agreements are complicated and numerous.
Despite this, the anthropologist John Bradley, a caucasian member of the Yanyuwa (and who also fluently speaks the language), has produced an enormous dictionary and grammar of the language along with a cultural atlas in collaboration with the members of his adoptive tribe, so Yanyuwa's impending extinction may not be permanent.
Yanyuwa is unusual among languages of the world in that it has separate dialects for men and for women at the morphological level.
en.my-widgets.com /Yanyuwa_language   (756 words)

  
 State of Indigenous Languages in Australia - 2001: 7.9.d Language Programs in Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The table shows the uneven distribution of Indigenous language programs with a high percentage of Warlpiri schools (88%) having some kind of program, but much less in the Western Desert and Arandic (south-eastern and south-central) areas and none in the Barkly region where there are numerous Indigenous language speakers.
Other than that there were no Indigenous language programs in the state education system and this led to the foundation of the independent Aboriginal school at Strelley in the Pilbara with a bilingual education program in 1977 followed by others.
We know that they are extensive from other regional reports from language centres and others in WA of the number of programs in operation in the government sector, although many of these might be at a relatively low level.
www.deh.gov.au /soe/techpapers/languages/indicator9d.html   (1480 words)

  
 graph representation of knowledge
This substantial universality might be found not at the in both lexicon and grammar level but in some set of elements of a substructural ontology, such as what Prueitt and Ewell have been discussing.
As mentioned, the ideal position from which to bear on the issue would be to begin with a body of deep semantic analyses carried out on a purely language-internal basis in a range of diverse languages.
The idea of whether each language distributes prime roots equally well can be separated from the conjecture that a set of universal semantic roots exists or not.
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 Natural semantic metalanguage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The concept has roots in the 17th century projects for ideal languages and the 18th century alphabet of human thought of René Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz.
Such a grammar would describe how these primes collocate in any language, regardless of their morphological and syntactic grammar in particular languages.
The assumption that these primes are present in all languages was tested extensively against these 9 languages: Polish, Mandarin, Malay, Lao, Spanish, Korean, Mbula (Austronesian language), Cree (Algonquian language), Yankunytjatjara (Australian Aboriginal language).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage   (491 words)

  
 Foundation For Endangered Languages.
As the history of the Tsimshian Nation is closely tied up with the vitality of the language, sociolinguistic factors important to understanding the state of the language today are identified and the typology of the language is described.
Language efforts typical of Native American languages (preservation/revival efforts, curriculum, technology use) are hampered not only by English use, but also by no desire for English-like functions in the traditional variety (because of emotional and religious factors).
Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French and English - are spoken.
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 Chittagonian_language info here at en.album-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Chittagonian is a drag of the Bengali-Assamese sub-branch of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the wider more vast Indo-European vocabulary family.
Nasalization of vowels is contrastive in Chittagonian, as with cutting edge Eastern Indic languages.
In addition, English words are widely used in spoken Chittagonian, blameless as in essentially entire cutting edge Indian languages, as a generation of the legacy of the British Empire.
en.album-gasoline-alley.info /Chittagonian_language   (865 words)

  
 National Australia Day Council - Australia of the Year Award 2007
Mona Tur is from the Antikirinya/Yankunytjatjara language group.
In the South Australian community, Mona is well known for her work as an interpreter, for advocacy in indigenous issues as well as fulfilling many other roles and responsibilities.
She shares her Tjukur, her dreaming, with people of all ages, both through the oral tradition and her poetry and writings.
www.australianoftheyear.gov.au /pages/bio.asp?pID=68   (120 words)

  
 waru.org: Mimili
Most students at Mimili are Anangu and speak either Pitjantjatjara or Yankunytjatjara as their first language.
To assist in language acquisition programs, ESL support is a component of staffing and all teachers are provided with on-site training in ESL methodology.
Because of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara language group association, this person is known locally as an Anangu Education Worker.
www.waru.org /communities/mimili/school.php   (1261 words)

  
 AIATSIS - ASEDA catalogue
Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara: Banjima Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Lorraine Injie; Alan Dench (Banjima)
Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara: Kariyarra Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Manny Lockyer (Kariyarra)
Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara: Ngarluma Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Kennneth Hale; Tootsie Daniel (Ngarluma)
coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/ASEDA-old/Title_A.htm   (2319 words)

  
 wordless   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
I have no sense of the grammatical structure of the language but I have read that it is complex, and I am still struggling with my Italian learning (mainly through avoiding it these days).
In Adelaide I have met a number of Aboriginal people mainly from up north who are fluent in 3 or 4 Aboriginal languages as well as English.
They tell me that they have learnt the languages of their mother and their father (who would often come from different language groups), and then go on to learn the language of their wife or husband, and possibly yet another language of one of the parents of their spouse.
dollyoko.thing.net /TA/TEXT/JOURNAL1.HTM   (180 words)

  
 afss-language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
BARNGARLA (Pangkala or Parnkalla) and WIRANGU are related to languages originally from the Eyre Peninsula and the West Coast.
NARRUNGA is the language of the Yorke Peninsula, with many of the Narrunga nation originally from the Point Pearce community.
BOANDIK was the language spoken in the South East of South Australia.
www.afss.com.au /info-language.htm   (326 words)

  
 waru.org: Pukatja
All the students are Anangu and their first language is Pitjantjatjara.
LOTE is taken as English as a Second Language.
Because of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara language group association, this person is known locally as an Anangu Teacher.
www.waru.org /communities/pukatja/school.php   (1879 words)

  
 Dzhidi Language info here at en.my-widgets.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The language is also known, especially in its literary form, as Latorayi, literally "not [the language] of the Torah".
The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible.
Persian became to a great extent the language of everyday life among the Jews of Babylonia; and a hundred years after the conquest of that country by the Sassanids an amora of Pumbedita, Rab Joseph (d.
en.my-widgets.com /Dzhidi_language   (534 words)

  
 Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park: Tjukurpa
Anangu is the term that Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people from the Western Desert region of Australia use to refer to themselves.
The many different Aboriginal languages and dialects throughout Australia are evidence of the cultural diversity of Aboriginal peoples.
Around 250 languages have been recorded and these languages are spoken by more than 500 named language groups.
www.deh.gov.au /parks/uluru/tjukurpa/anangu.html   (230 words)

  
 Tregami_language info here at en.album-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Tregami, Trigami or Gambiri is a language spoken by the Tregami confederations in the villages of Gambir & Katar in the Nurestan Province of Afghanistan.
Tregami touchs to the Indo-European language family, & is on the Nuristani clot of the Indo-Iranian branch.
Its speakers are overwhelmingly Muslim, & literacy parallels are low: below 1% for confederations who have it as a first language, & interpolated 5% to 15% for confederations who have it as a second language.
en.album-gasoline-alley.info /Tregami_language   (262 words)

  
 The Alice Project - Anangu Web Links and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yankunytjatjara plant use Compiled and edited by Cliff Goddard and Arpad Kalotas, Punu (meaning plants) provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of important plant species that Yankunytjatjara people have used for thousands of years to make food medicine utensils and weapons.
The aim in writing was to provide access to the grammar of Pitjantjatjara for anyone who wishes to learn Pitjantjatjara as a foreign language or who needs it for projects in Pitjantjatjara speaking communities.
Maruku assists craftspeople throughout the Anangu (collective name of Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjara speaking people) lands by coordinating the marketing and promotion of their work and providing them with essential support services and advice.
www.alice.id.au /anangu_way.htm   (2843 words)

  
 UNE - News Release 167/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The University of New England's Professor Cliff Goddard, one of the leaders of the search, will argue that many of the truly universal features of language are to be found in meaning rather than in grammar.
Cliff Goddard received his PhD from ANU for a study of the Central Australian language Yankunytjatjara.
(He has written a dictionary of that language which is currently available in a revised second edition.) After working in Central Australia throughout the 1980s in Aboriginal education, he joined the staff of UNE's new Linguistics Department in 1990.
www.une.edu.au /news/releases2003/October/167-03.html   (513 words)

  
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 Top20Languages.com - Online Directory for Languages.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
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In 1997, I was one of two students at Port Augusta Secondary School, who studied Stage 2 (Year 12) Australian Indigenous Languages in which the target language was Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara.
I returned the following year to study this subject again and was rewarded with a field trip to Uluru to experience the language first-hand.
It's good that more schools are offering Aboriginal languages but Port Augusta was the first school in SA to offer this at Year 12.
www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art2821.txt   (117 words)

  
 BitscapeBlog » Blog Archive » Ngapartji Ngapartji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
As part of Ngapartji Nagapartji audience members undergo a short course in the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara language, which can be accessed via the web, through the language kiosk at Australian Centre for the Moving Image or in person.
Each night of the five-night pilot season audiences will be taught a little more of the language.
Each evening’s performance is stand alone, but undertaken sequentially over five sessions you will learn more of the language and experience a richer understanding of this exceptional story.
www.nextwave.org.au /bitscape/blog/?p=60   (241 words)

  
 Anthropological Linguistics vol. 33, no. 1
In this paper I compare East African Nubi, an Arabic- based creole, to Sudanic Arabic, and to two potential substrate languages, Bari and Mamvu, and conclude that Sudanic Arabic is the most significant source.
It is further suggested that one can speak of Nubi being genetically related to Arabic, and, by implication, that genetic relationship is generally one aspect of a creole's characterization.
Although linguistic gender in European languages is thought to be based primarily on convention, the study suggests that gender usage in the dialectal data is facultative (i.e., open to conscious awareness and meaningful manipulation).
www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v33-1.html   (465 words)

  
 4.6.8 PITJANTJATJARA
The term Pitjantjatjara is sometimes used to refer to all of the Western Desert languages.
Downing, Hale and Ingkatji (1967) [Pitjantjatjara language course materials for use at the University of Adelaide], ts.
Goddard, C. A semantically-oriented grammar of the Yankunytjatjara dialect of the Western Desert language
coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/WA/4_6_8.htm   (845 words)

  
 PM - Two Aboriginal elders win Goldman environmental prize
But she has clear memories of what happened and what followed, as she explained today in her native Yankunytjatjara language, with her grand daughter, Karina Lester translating.
She would later get married and have a family, and it was her children and grand children who inspired her and other elder women to form the Coober Pedy Women's Council in 1995.
The group wanted to pass their language and culture onto younger generations, and they later became very vocal about Federal Government plans to bury nuclear waste at a site near Woomera.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s833092.htm   (534 words)

  
 Yankunytjatjara language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.
It is one of the Wati languages of the large South-West branch of the Pama-Nyungan family.
It is one of the varieties of the Western Desert Language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yankunytjatjara_language   (97 words)

  
 ODIN results for language Pitjantjatjara (PJT)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
For those results that indicate Verified as "Highest" or "High", all instances of IGT in the document have been manually verified both to be IGT and to be in the language specified.
"Low" indicates that the language was not verified, although the instances discovered are IGT.
For more information about the language selected, click the language name or language code above and the Ethnologue report page for the language will be opened.
www.csufresno.edu /odin/igt_urls.php?lang=PJT   (201 words)

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