A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory

Title: A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Creator: Wafer, Jim; Lissarrague, Amanda
Relation: www.muurrbay.org.au/muurrbay-resources
Publisher: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Cooperative
Resource Type: book
Date: 2008
Description: New South Wales was the first part of Australia to be colonised, so the written records of the state's Indigenous languages go back more than 200 years. The handbook is a guide to Aboriginal languages, with illustrative vocabularies. It is divided into two parts: the first part, which includes maps, is a survey of the Indigenous languages of NSW and the ACT, giving information about dialects, locations, and resources available for language revitalisation; the second part provides word-lists in practical spelling for 42 distinct language varieties. There is also useful information on contact languages, sign languages and kinship classification, as well as an appendix on placenames.
Subject: indigenous languages; Aboriginal languages; New South Wales; Australian Capital Territory
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43617
Identifier: uon:5692
Identifier: ISBN:9780977535187
Language: eng

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