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ISBN: 9780987096609
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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This is a dictionary of language spoken on Stradbroke and Moreton islands based on words remembered by all Elders and recorded by interested visitors to our shores.
Author: Karen Sullivan
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760466182
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka ‘work’ comes from the Yagara verb yaga ‘to work’. However, no fluent native speakers of Yagara remain. The current volume compares the written records of Yagara to facilitate revitalisation of the spoken language. Part 1: Grammar introduces the Yagara sources, which are then compared to extract a picture of Yagara’s structure – its sounds, its words, and its grammar. Attention is also given to the system of kinship terms, moieties, and totems. Part 2: Dictionary contains the most complete Yagara-English dictionary to date, with over 2,200 entries, the original source spellings for each word, standardised spellings, and anthropological notes. Entries include traditional place names, fun insults, and everyday expressions such as the greeting wi balga ‘Hey, come’. The dictionary is followed by an English word finder list. Part 3: Texts consist of full versions of all known texts in Yagara, including sentences, songs, and three Bible stories. Standardised versions are accompanied by English translations and the original unedited renditions. Format: Hardback
Author: K. M. Stephens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920928155
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Author: Archibald Turnbull
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120601024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Michael Hutt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120811560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today. An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature-poetry and the short story-this work profiles eleven of Nepal`s most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known examples of the Nepali short story are translated into English for the first time by Michael Hutt. All provide vivid descriptions of Life in twentieth-century Nepal. This book should appeal not only to admires of Nepal, but to all readers with an interest in non-Western literatures.
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131741389X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project. Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the online Catalogue, located at www.endangeredlanguages.com, making it an essential companion to the website for academics and researchers working in this area. While the online Catalogue displays much data from the ELCat project, this volume develops and emphasizes aspects of the research behind the data and includes topics of great interest in the field, not previously covered in a single volume. Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages is an important volume of particular interest to academics and researchers working with endangered languages.
Author: James Stormonth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385426146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author: Anne Monsour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921214547
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Dr Monsour's study, by investigating the often difficult to locate government archives, has revealed the bureaucratic maze which peaceful and industrious people who were different, had to negotiate in order to gain citizenship ...the story of the acceptance (of) ...Syrian/Lebanese individuals... by the Anglo-Celtic host society, which was in many cases a harrowing one, has been kept silent. In recounting this struggle Anne Monsour has rendered a signal service to our understanding of how the original exclusivist and racist provisions of the 'White Australia Policy' were gradually dismantled. This case study is undoubtedly a major statement concerning Australia's development into becoming an enlightened colour-blind parliamentary democracy.
Author: Yamaji Language Centre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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An illustrated wordlist of the Nhanda language of Western Australia.
Author: ENGLISH AND BENGA LANGUAGES.
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ISBN:
Category : Benga language
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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