Aboriginal languages in contemporary contexts : Yolngu Matha at Galiwin'ku / edited by Michael Cooke
- Bib ID:
- 3001724
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Contemporary Uses of Aboriginal Languages Research Project
- Description:
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- Batchelor, N.T. : Batchelor College, 1996
- viii, 152 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0646305506
- Summary:
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Uses of various Yolngu languages, in particular Djambarrpuyngu, from Galiwin'ku, north-east Arnhem Land; historical overview of Yolngu contact with the world outside Australia; influence of the Macassans on Yolngu society and language; description of the emergence of the Aboriginal community of Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island; sociological context of Yolngu Matha; inventory of Yolngu speech styles and genres; kinship; Aboriginal language interpreting in court.
- Notes:
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- "Contemporary Uses of Aboriginal Languages Research Project funded by the National Priority Reserve Fund (Dept. of Education, Employment, Training & Youth Affairs)" - t.p.
- Bibliography: p. 149-152.
- Subject:
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- Batchelor College
- Yolngu languages
- Language - Maintenance
- Language - Change
- Djambarrpuyngu language (N115) (NT SD53-03)
- Social organisation
- Djambarrpuyngu people (N115) (NT SD53-03)
- Yolngu languages (NT SD53)
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Law - Legal system - Courts - Court interpreters
- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Languages
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Galiwinku (Elcho Island East Arnhem Land NT SD53-03)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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