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Warraparna Kaurna!: Reclaiming an Australian Language

by Rob Amery
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781925261240
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Adelaide Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 398
  • Original Price: GBP 30.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 926 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Oceanic & Australian Languages

This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials.

This study is breaking new ground. In the Kaurna case, very little knowledge of the language remained within the Aboriginal community. Yet the Kaurna language has become an important marker of identity and a means by which Kaurna people can further the struggle for recognition, reconciliation and liberation.

This work challenges widely held beliefs as to what is possible in language revival and questions notions about the very nature of language and its development.

Amery, Rob: - Rob Amery is Head of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide. His main research focus is Australian Indigenous languages, their maintenance and revival. He has been working with the Kaurna language and the Kaurna community continuously since 1989. He participated in establishing Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi (KWP) in 2002. In 2007, he was awarded a UNESCO Certificate of Achievement in recognition of 'the documentation both of the Kaurna language and aspects of the traditions of the Kaurna Plains people and the development of language revival resources'.

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