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Warraparna Kaurna! : reclaiming an Australian language

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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  Read more...

Author(s): Amery, Rob
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 350
City: South Australia.
Tags: Kaurna language;Kaurna (Australian people);Nyunga (Australian people);Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Languages;Australian languages -- Australia -- South Australia;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative;Aboriginal Australians -- Languages;Australian languages;South Australia;Historical and comparative linguistics;Language;linguistics;kaurna;aboriginal languages;extinct languages;language reclamation;language revival;indigenous languages;

1. Locating the study --
2. Language reclamation --
3. An ecological approach to language revival --
4. A sociolinguistics history of Kaurna --
5. Kaurna sources --
6. Restoring and transforming the Kaurna language --
7. Kaurna language programs --
8. Kaurna in society --
9. Kaurna language revival : the formulaic method --
10. Sociopolitical dimensions of Kaurna language revival --
11. Into the twenty-first century : developments since 2000 --
12. Summary and conclusions.