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 …

The revival of Hebrew is so far the most successful known reclamation of a sleeping tongue
and is a language movement that has been in progress for more than 120 years. By …

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 …

Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains, is an awakening language undergoing revival
since 1989. Though little knowledge of Kaurna remains in the oral tradition and no sound …

The work of the German missionaries on South Australian languages in the first half of the
nineteenth century has few contemporary parallels for thoroughness and clarity. This …

Whilst language revitalisation projects must be community directed in order to be
sustainable, linguists often play an advisory role, and in this capacity, one of their main tasks …

Mangarrayi is a critically endangered language from the western Roper River re-gion in the
Northern Territory of Australia. Today the greatest concentration of Mangarrayi people live at …

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 …

The foundation of the colony of South Australia coincided with the influence of philanthropic
evangelicals in the Colonial Office and British parliament, and the colony's founding …