Where can I learn Kaurna language?
This very active revitalisation effort has resulted in Kaurna being taught in schools and universities. It can be studied at The University of Adelaide, and is currently offered as an intensive summer school on a two-year rotating basis (next expected offering in 2017).
What is the Kaurna word for platypus?
patpa
Less than a decade later many of the children associated the Page 5 Kaurna in Society 207 words with animals embossed with them on the banners. Thus conanda was thought to mean ‘swan’, patpa was equated with ‘platypus’, maree with ‘kangaroo’ and wongarta with ‘frill-neck lizard’.
Is it OK to learn Indigenous languages?
That you as a white person can simply choose to learn a Native language however, wherever, and from whomever you like is the epitome of privilege. Consider: Native people weren’t allowed to legally practice our own spiritual beliefs until the American Indian Religious Freedoms Act was passed in 1978.
How do you say chicken in Aboriginal?
Comment: From English ‘chook-chook’; plural jugijugi Wa.
What nation is Kaurna?
South Australia
Kaurna Aboriginal people are the Traditional Owners of the Adelaide plains in South Australia. Kaurna land extends north towards Crystal Brook, down the Adelaide plains, south along the coast to Cape Jervis and is bounded by the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east.
Is Torres Strait Islander offensive?
Don’t abbreviate ‘Aboriginal’ or ‘Torres Strait Islander,’ or use the acronym ‘ATSI. ‘ Never use terms such as ‘full-blood,’ ‘half-caste’ and ‘quarter-caste’ – they are extremely offensive. The term ‘Indigenous’ can offend people in some places.
What is the Narrinyeri language?
This is a widely accepted name for a language in South Australia, but Berndt and Berndt say the term Narrinyeri (S69) was introduced by Taplin; it was not a term used by speakers (1993:19). McDonald (2002:11) notes that this term is now firmly established in the minds of the Ngarrindjeri people.
What is the difference between Narrinyeri and Yaralde?
However, the term Narrinyeri has been used consistently in the literature and by Aborigines today who recognise a common descent from original inhabitants of this region– even though their traditional identifying labels have been lost.”. The Yaralde had the southernmost attested Australian Aboriginal sign language.
What does Ngarinyeri mean?
Signed forms. Ngarrindjeri (also Yaraldi, Yaralde Tingar) or Narrinyeri (also written Ngarinyeri) was the language of the Ngarrindjeri and related peoples of southern South Australia.
Is there a free translation of Ngarrindjeri?
The Berndts published a huge proportion of their ethnographic work in 1993 in the book A World That Was, which contains a very large number of Ngarrindjeri sentences in long texts in the book’s appendices, all with interlinear word-for-word English glosses, but with no free translation.