It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken
now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as …

This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of
Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up …

Daily practices in education can be frightening. A recent incident, reported by a Finnish
student, shows that we are far from having won the battle (s) of interculturality (the reader …

This paper explores the interface between language planning and language revival, based
on current efforts to reclaim and reintroduce Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains …

Early ethnographers and missionaries recorded Aboriginal languages and oral traditions
across Australia. Their general lack of astronomical training resulted in misidentifications …

ABSTRACT Barngarla is a Thura-Yura Pama-Nyungan language originally spoken on the
Eyre Peninsula, South Australia and adjacent northern hinterlands. This paper proposes …

In the case of Kaurna, the original language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia, the
demographic profile and movements of people have great explanatory power for …

Following the invasion, or colonisation as some prefer to call it, Indigenous Australia has
been characterised by plummeting populations, largely as a result of introduced diseases …

Universally, names provide a symbolic system of identification so that we can tell one
person, ethnic and racial group from the other. The system is “historically constructed …

Jenolan and Wombeyan are two of the most widely recognised Aboriginal placenames,
while Tuglow and Colong are perhaps better known to bushwalkers and speleologists …