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that munanga linguist: August 2014
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. August 13, 2014. Today is the first anniversary of the passing of Mrs F. Roberts, the old lady who taught me more Marra than anyone else in the world. She was awesome. I miss her and it makes me so sad that the world is a lesser place without her in it. Below are a few words I gave at her funeral:. Gana ginya n-Marra gana ngarl-ngamanji: ngina, gana ginya n-daway. Ngula na-munanga gana… girlg-nan.gay marluy. En didei aim jis ...
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that munanga linguist: September 2014
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. September 01, 2014. Bunjee. We gotta go now. Wide-eyed and well-educated. That was me, supposedly. That was me when I first camped in an Aboriginal community. I was there to learn about “ the other. 8221; Except now, I was. But on this day – the day I got my simplest and most effective Kriol lesson ever, I wasn’t a lone. Fisherman. Me, and - “ them. How do I speak to these people? How are they gonna accept me? My fears, I dis...
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that munanga linguist: Homonym!
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. April 17, 2015. This is a bit random, but I had to share. I've been lolling and beating my fist on the table all night at this video (yes, literally). I had no idea a 17 second cutaway on a TV show could be so LOL-worthy. It really tickles my fancy . the idea of this cruel gameshow called "Homonym":. The cleverness of 30 Rock. Presenter: The next term: milk/tap/lion. All pronounced شیر 'sheer' in Farsi - a triple homonym).
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that munanga linguist: March 2014
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. March 25, 2014. Kevin Rogers talking up strong and the ignorance of Munanga. Old Kevin Rogers at Ngukurr is lovely, clever, skinny old man. (Not OLD-old, but old enough for me to call him in 'old man' in that Aboriginal term-of-respect type way). If a Munanga visited Ngukurr today, they might easily overlook him and probably never realise that he is a university graduate and former principal of Ngukurr School. A couple of yea...
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Endangered Languages and Cultures
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Endangered Languages and Cultures. The challenge that language variation poses to language description – a LIP recap. 3 August 2016, 9:09 am by Harriet Sheppard. Linguistics in the Pub. Finding what is not there. 18 July 2016, 2:00 pm by Nick Thieberger. A major part of PARADISEC’s effort goes in finding and digitising audio tapes that record performance in the many small languages of the world. As discussed in a number of posts on this blog. A more focussed way of finding out what recordings there are i...
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that munanga linguist: February 2015
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. February 18, 2015. Ten years of blogging! Ten years of blogging? How did that happen! Well this is how. revealed in a long, extremely self-indulgent post that hopefully has enough reflection and self-awareness to not make you vomit into your hat. Here's where it all began: http:/ munanga.blogspot.com.au/2005/02/oh-my-ive-got-blog.html. I had no choice - my head and heart was racing and I needed to express it. That post wa...
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that munanga linguist: April 2015
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. April 25, 2015. Lest we forget: warfare in our own region. No one in my close family has been to war, so I've never felt like international conflicts were that close to my life. So for me, domestic conflicts have more immediate relevance. I was surprised and impressed to see Wally Wilfred. Entry to 2014 Katherine Prize called Olden Days. Detail) by Wally Wilfred and Jill Daniels. 2014. April 17, 2015. The cleverness of 30 Rock.
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that munanga linguist: What's in a word: dinggal
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. October 19, 2014. What's in a word: dinggal. Fun fact: In Kriol, dinggal. Is a verb meaning 'limp' or 'walk unevenly'. In Marra and Warndarrang, dinggarl-dinggarl. Refers to a weed that produces fruit like this:. I only just noticed it yesterday when I was trying to suss out where the verb dinggal. Comes from (obviously not English). You can see the verb dinggal. As for those spiky little spurs? See, it seems quite unlikely f...
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that munanga linguist: Bla olgamen
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Language man working on Aboriginal languages occasionally sharing his thoughts. August 13, 2014. Today is the first anniversary of the passing of Mrs F. Roberts, the old lady who taught me more Marra than anyone else in the world. She was awesome. I miss her and it makes me so sad that the world is a lesser place without her in it. Below are a few words I gave at her funeral:. Gana ginya n-Marra gana ngarl-ngamanji: ngina, gana ginya n-daway. Ngula na-munanga gana… girlg-nan.gay marluy. En didei aim jis ...
