GayeFistor

2237 pts · November 7, 2014


...Betty White

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also missing my favourite person in the world who lives on the other side of the world...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh look, I want to say once a month, but that's pushing it

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Honestly, there probably is. This place has a lot of children centred jobs going around

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yeah a few of the languages around here have it. It does have a tense system that I'm pretty sure is kinda unique around here too.

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Im a bit far from Uluru to give a good answer

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Im from Qld. I studied Linguistics at UQ. I think the state Government is paying. End goal = Miriwoong language not dying

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Its a locally owned, grant + gov funded I believe

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I encounter more dangerous wildlife in QLD tbh haha

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Not sure, Ill ask the elders

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Not gemination, just the /u/ phoneme. /Th/ is the dental t.

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system of semantically-loaded coverbs and semantically-bleached but inflectionally-loaded verbs. 2/2

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So miriwoong is a member of the jarrakan language family. Its non-Pama nyungan which makes it a little but rarer. It employs a complex 1/2

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Ay thats true

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Probably have met them haha

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Ngoondenging woorlang, thanks man :) (It means 'good word')

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More accessible. Better weather haha

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haha i struggle with that word. and "sentence"

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Over 100 haha

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Weve just made a small version of the dictionary public. Its pretty cute and it covers some good stuff. Heres a link 1/2

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I started with an internship up here last yr and then came back up after talking to the same people. You have to go remote haha

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Just speak it all the time. and listen to as many old texts as you can.

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You get used to it ☺

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Those who are in a class. If there are indigenous and non-indigenous, we teach them all.

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We dont get a huge amount of listeners, but it useful to create material to practice and broadcast so the langauge is still spoken in media2

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All indigenous australian languages are localised to some degree. Before European invasion, there were over 300 distinct languages spoken1/2

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It makes it easier insofar that there are still fluent speakers. More urban areas havnt had native speakers for decades, even centuries

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