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 …

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 …

In this paper, I intend to raise a number of issues in relation to language and identity within
the urban Aboriginal context. I will do this in the light of work carried out recently in the …

Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia, is known only from mid-19th-
century written records. Over the last few decades, Kaurna has undergone a remarkable …

The Indigenous languages of southeast Australia have often been written off as a hopeless
cause in current debates about language revitalization. In this paper we question this …

This paper is based on an oral presentation given on 12 June 2004 at the 11th Annual
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference, held at the University of California, Berkeley …

Since leaving 'the bush'I have been continually surprised at the ignorance that still exists
about Aboriginal people and their languages. When people chat to me, and it is revealed …

Contemporary contact languages used by Indigenous people in Australia share many words
and grammatical features and structures. I trace the development of contact varieties in …

This paper examines the philosophy and practice of programs that aim to maintain, renew,
or revive Aboriginal languages in Australia. I focus here on languages, mainly those of …

Examines the way in which the Aboriginal" voice" was represented in colonial South
Australia, particularly in the form of pidgin English. The first part of the article focuses on the …