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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (animals), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (birds), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (sea creatures), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (weather), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text. Elementary standard.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi dhura =? my family, 2006
Children's illustrations with bi-lingual text. Elementary standard.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi wandidja = I live at, 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text. Elementary standard.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, C W Peck, Australian legends : tales handed down from the remotest times by the autocthonous inhabitants of our land, 1933
Different text to the original edition. Does not include stories of White Pioneers, but concentrates on Creation Stories, flora and fauna, etc.B&w illustrations, b&w photographscreation stories, mythology, folklore -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, C W Peck, Australian legends : tales handed down from the remotest times by the autocthonous inhabitants of our land : parts 1 and 2, 1925
Peck has collected a range of myths and legends from Aboriginal people, and also stories of the early pioneers in Australia.b&w illustrationscreation stories, myths and legends -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal fables and legendary tales, 1999
Gathered from all over Australia, these legends have been passed down through the tribes for thousands of years.murray river, mount gambier, legends, tales, dreamtime, rainbow snake, baiame -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal stories of Australia, 1998
... Aboriginal stories of Australia...Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A collection of traditional tales that date back to the beginning of time.word listscreation stories, animals, baime, sun, moon, stars, dreaming -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal tales of Australia, 1998
... Aboriginal tales of Australia... Aboriginal connection to the land. Aboriginal tales of Australia Book ...Populated by mythical beings, these stories of heros, birds, rivers, lakes and shores have been passed down over generations and today offer a window of understanding into the powerful Aboriginal connection to the land.word listscreation stories, dreamtime -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, In other words : souvenir program 2005, 2005
A program from the "In Other Words" Festival, celebrating poets and translators from around Australia and across the world. Features poetry, essays and songs from Jeanie Bell & Vanessa Fisher, Lou Bennet, Ricardo Idagi, and Bruce Pascoe. Works in English and Language.Black and white photographsvacl, south-east queensland, cherbourg, dungibara, ewamin, garumngar, jiman, inala, tiddas, yorta yorta, mer, murray island, wurundjeri, aunty joy murphy wandin, wathaurong aboriginal cooperative, jeanie bell, vanessa fisher, lou bennett, ricardo idagi, bruce pascoe -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Yilpanha wiya yamathi tjapirnku =? why the goanna and the lizard are no longer friends today : the Dreamtime story of the goanna and the lizard, 2005
Creation story.word lists, colour illustrations, CD-ROMwangkatha, western australia, dreamtime, storytelling, animals -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Aboriginal words of Australia, 1983
... Aboriginal words of Australia... the Darling River). Aboriginal words of Australia Book EH Papps ...A collection from other sources. State of origin of words identified, but not Languages. Includes some phrases and The Lord's Prayer (from the Darling River).language reference -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, JM Arthur, Aboriginal English : a cultural study, 1996
... dialect of Australian English. The term ?Aboriginal English... of Australian English. The term ?Aboriginal English? refers to the form ...Aboriginal English is the first and most significant dialect of Australian English. The term ?Aboriginal English? refers to the form of English used by Aboriginal people. This English is popularly but inaccurately called a ?pidgin?. Rather than being a Pidgin it is a complete language.aboriginal english, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Barry J. Blake, Australian aboriginal languages : a general introduction, 1981
... and culture. Australian aboriginal languages : a general introduction ...Excellent non-technical introduction to the general study and characteristics of Aboriginal languages, including notes on many areas of grammar and culture.Colour photographs, tables, word listsvocabulary, linguistics, language and culture -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Barry J Blake, Case marking in Australian languages, 1977
Linguistic study using case markings. Glossary.Maps, tableslinguistics, case relations in languages, pama-nyungan languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Tim Bonyhady, Words for country : landscape &? language in Australia, 2002
Landscape and Language -- Lubra Creek -- The River Runs Backwards -- These Blarsted Hills -- Scarcely Any Water on Its Surface -- Everyone Who Has Ever Done A Tree Sit Always Says That The Tree Talks To You -- The Spirit of the Plains Kangaroo -- The Graveyard of a Century -- So Much for a Name -- Blackfellow Oven Roads -- The Ends of the Earth -- Natural Beauty, Man-Made -- Uluru -- The Outside Country -- It's Only Words.Mapslanguage and landscape, language essays, writing, storytelling -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Australia talks : essays on the sociology of Australian immigrant and Aboriginal languages, 1983
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Australia is becoming a living laboratory for research into socio-linguistic/sociology of languages, offering three main fields; aboriginal languages, local varieties of English and immigrant languages in contact with English.Tableslinguistics, sociolinguistics, immigrants -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, H M Cooper, Australian Aboriginal words and their meanings, 1966
... . Australian Aboriginal words and their meanings Book H M Cooper ...Short book of approximately 3,000 words from South Australian languages. No specific indication of source languages given.word listssouth australia, glossaries -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 1, 1886
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 2, 1886
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 3, 1887
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent, Vol. 3.2, 2004
CD ROM - home made, contains scanned images of a few pages. CDROM located in CD ROM case.Word lists, CD-ROM -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, James Dawson, Australian Aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia, 1981
Comprehensive collection of details from James Dawson and his daughter on the people they met when they first settled in the Western District of Victoria in 1840. Detailed notes were kept on language and customs. He involved himself with the local people and respected their rights and lifestyle. He recorded incidents of their first contact with white people.b&w photographs, word lists, document reproductionswestern district, chaap wuurong, djab wurrung, peek whuurong, peek woorong, kuurn kopan noot, dhauwurd wurrung, birds, reptiles, relationship terms -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, RMW Dixon et al, Australian Aboriginal words in English : their origin and meaning, 1990
... possible. Australian Aboriginal words in English : their origin ...A detailed study and dictionary of English words that have been borrowed from Australian languages. Entries organised by category and include quotes from relevant sources. Etymologies and source languages given wherever possible.B&w illustrations, maps, word listswords and phrases, linguistics, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, RMW Dixon, Australian languages: their nature and development, 2002
Very comprehensive technical linguistic introduction to the Australian language family, a follow-up to Dixon?s ?The Languages of Australia? (1980). Numerous maps, isoglosses, tables, comparative grammar, phonology, semantics, etc. 1. The language situation in Australia 2. Modelling the language situation 3. Overview 4. Vocabulary 5. Case and other nominal suffixes 6. Verbs 7. Pronouns 8. Bound pronouns 9. Prefixing and fusion 10. Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes 11. Ergative/?accusative morphological and syntactic profiles 12. Phonology 13. Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas 14. Summary and conclusion.Mapslinguistics, language surveys -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, RMW Dixon, Grammatical categories in Australian languages, 1976
Various authors, technical linguistic studies of the encoding of particular syntactic functions across many Australian languages. Discussion of ?having? suffix, suffix -ku, syntactic ergativity, and verbal auxiliaries.Mapslinguistics, case relations in languages, pama-nyungan languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Sydney J Endacott, Australian Aboriginal words and place names and their meanings, 1985
... with definitions. (Appear to be different printings) Australian Aboriginal ...Word list with definitions. (Appear to be different printings)B&w photographs, word lists -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Sydney J Endacott, Australian Aboriginal native words and their meanings, 1944
... languages. Australian Aboriginal native words and their meanings ...A short book of Aboriginal words with definitions intended as a source for naming places or properties. Aboriginal-English only and no indication of source languages.Word lists
