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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-337) and index.
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.
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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 mid-nineteenth-century materials.
JSTOR
22573/ctt1sxfgt5
Warraparna Kaurna!
9781925261240
Aboriginal Australians-- Australia-- South Australia-- Languages.
Australian languages-- Australia-- South Australia.
Kaurna (Australian people)
Kaurna language.
Nyunga (Australian people)
Aboriginal Australians-- Languages.
Aboriginal Australians-- South Australia-- Languages.
Australian languages.
Historical and comparative linguistics.
Kaurna (Australian people)
Kaurna language L3.
Kaurna language.
Kaurna language.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Historical & Comparative.