- Language maintenance & revival
 Aboriginal language resurrected in South Australia (ABC)
Transcript of article about Kaurna "being spoken as a result of a joint effort by black and white Australians to revive what had been considered by many to be a dead language" [ABC 7.30 Report 28/02/01]. [23/09/2001] http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s252923.htm
 Bibliography on Language Endangerment (Tasaku Tsunoda)
Deals with many topics on language endangerment, revival, policy, and social and ethical issues. [01/12/2003] http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/BibLE/
Draft guide offers pointers to research and recording (Dr Eve Fesl/FATSIL)
Part 1 of a Guide for Aboriginal language workers. Dr Fesl is the first Indigenous person to take a doctorate in Linguistics in Australia. [02/01/2003] http://www.fatsil.org/VOTL/Articles/12-1.htm
Language revitalization: revival of Warrungu (Australia) and maintenance of Maori (New Zealand) (Tasaku Tsunoda)
A short report of Professor Tsunoda's experience in the preservation and revival of the Warrungu language of the Upper Herbert River area of north Queensland. [24/04/2002] http://www.sgu.ac.jp/com/ksasaki/kaken/essay/essay-tsn.htm
Languages and Boundaries (Dr Eve Fesl/FATSIL)
Part 2 of a Guide for Aboriginal language workers. [02/01/2003] http://www.fatsil.org/VOTL/Articles/14-4.htm
 Maintenance of Indigenous languages and records (Dept Communications, Information Technology and the Arts)
Australian government department responsible for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. This sparse page is the successor to the ill-fated ATSIC language program pages. [04/02/2007] http://www.dcita.gov.au/indigenous_programs/funding_programs_and_support/Maintenance_of_Indigenous_Languages_and_Records
Notes for the Computer Assisted Language Worker (Nicholas Thieberger)
Information and advice about using computers for language work. [14/01/1998] http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASEDA/CALANG/calang.html
The Spoken Word: Keeping the Aboriginal Language Strong (Christobel Swann)
Christobel Swann is a Conservationist who works as an Aboriginal Linguist in Alice Springs. She gives a personal and community perspective on the state of languages, especially her own, southern Arrernte. [15/07/2000] http://www.bri.net.au/spokenword.html
The Tjapukai Language (Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park)
Describes efforts to relearn the Tjapukai language, beginning in 1987. Since then, the language has experienced a revival, perhaps the only case of revival of a dying language in Australia (see also the song with Tjapukai words. [16/08/1999] http://www.tjapukai.com.au/language.html
Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language (Rob Amery/Swets & Zweitlinger)
This book is Rob Amery's study of the reclamation of the Kaurna Language, on which he has been working in collaboration with Kaurna people and other educators. Comprehensive and introspective, it uses an "ecological" approach and describes many practical methods. [13/01/2003] http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/frameset.htm?url=%2Fszp%2Fbooks%2F16339.htm |
