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oapen-20.500.12657-324272022-04-26T12:25:57Z Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories Breen, Gavan australia aboriginal language Future tense Inna Innamincka South Australia Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol Nganha Ngapala South Australia Present tense Yandruwandha language bic Book Industry Communication::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic & Austronesian languages::2PB Australian Aboriginal languages Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitled Innamincka Talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language. It is also a necessary resource for users of the more technical Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student. 2016-06-23 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:10:07Z 2020-04-01T14:10:07Z 2015 book 610991 OCN: 1030816057 9781921934216 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32427 eng application/pdf n/a 610991.pdf http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/innamincka-words-yandruwandha-dictionary-and-stories ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_610991 10.26530/OAPEN_610991 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781921934216 open access
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Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitled Innamincka Talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language. It is also a necessary resource for users of the more technical Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew to the linguist student.
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