Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages

Editor: David Nathan

Update 2024

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As the main web portal for Australian Aboriginal languages on the web (part of Tim Berners-Lee’s official W3C Virtual Library (now defunct at https://www.vlib.org/ - see its history) this site provided summaries, guidance and links to quality resources on Aboriginal languages, especially those produced from communities and by community members. It was listed in most of the major international libraries and other institutions as a key site for Australian languages, and attracted over 500,000 hits a year.

Approximately half of the linked sites still exist and the site’s back-end database remains valuable because it contains data which tracks 20 years of the emergence, expansion and changes in the online presence of Australian First Nations languages from the birth of the web.

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RESULTS: 5 ITEMS FOR LANGUAGE Yuwaalaraay

Gayarragi, Winangali: Find and hear

Source: John Giacon and David Nathan

Interactive multimedia resource for Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay. Includes searchable dictionary with over 2,600 entries, all including audio; 1000 spoken sentences, all transcribed, and linked to the dictionary; 44 songs and stories, all transcribed, and linked to the dictionary; various games.

Free registration and download (Windows only).

http://www.dnathan.com/projects/gw/

This is the date when the item first appeared in this virtual library. It may have been changed or updated since then.24/04/2011

 

Languages of some native tribes of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria

Source: R.H. Matthews

This 1902 document has grammatical and vocabulary description for some languages of southern Queensland, central NSW, and northern Victoria, including (as Matthews spelt them) Yualeai, Pikumbil, Kawambarai, Kurnu, Tyake (Mystic), Dyirringan, Yota-yota, and Bureba. [PDF 190 pages]

http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn4665374

This is the date when the item first appeared in this virtual library. It may have been changed or updated since then.06/08/2015

 

Linguists and language rebuilding: recent experience in two New South Wales languages

Source: John Giacon / LDC

A paper considering linguists’ roles, methods, and principles in language revival, largely based on John’s experience with Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay.

http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/4616/giacon.pdf?sequence=3

This is the date when the item first appeared in this virtual library. It may have been changed or updated since then.06/08/2015

 

A Reference Grammar of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales

Source: Peter K. Austin

A downloadable academic grammar, complied from historical sources, with introduction to the people and language, and notes on the closely related Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaaliyaay languages. Published 1993.

https://www.academia.edu/2457676/A_Reference_Grammar_of_Gamilaraay_northern_New_South_Wales

This is the date when the item first appeared in this virtual library. It may have been changed or updated since then.17/10/2015

 

Yuwaalaraay gaay. Gamilaraay garay

Source: Yuwaalaraay Language Program/John Giacon

Dictionaries and a range of links and learning materials for Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay.

http://www.yuwaalaraay.org/

This is the date when the item first appeared in this virtual library. It may have been changed or updated since then.10/02/2007