Kaurna Warrapiipa, Kaurna Dictionary - Couverture souple

Amery, Rob; Greenwood, Susie; Morley, Jasmin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1743059213 ISBN 13 : 9781743059210

Editeur : Wakefield Press, 2022

Synopsis

The Kaurna Dictionary is a valuable resource for our community to learn and share our language and culture. This book will enable our community to revive their connections to land and each other to respect the past and to further develop the future of our people as a community. It is an encouragement for all people to come together and learn together.

ALISON DENEE Chairperson, Kaurna Warra Karrpanthi

Kaurna Ancestors are lighting up the sky, singing and dancing while Kaurna hearts burst with pride as we announce the arrival of our history-making, first-ever Kaurna language dictionary.

Kaurna to English and English to Kaurna translations give learners quick access and the ability to identify the creative processes used to translate and adapt old words to new for modern-day application that is rooted in ancient integrity. The dictionary includes words for people and relationships, animals, landscapes, seasons, emotions, ceremonies and practices, and includes new words for sports and technology just to name a few.

This simple, comprehensive and insightful dictionary is easy to navigate and is grounded with ancient and modern Kaurna voices and robust historical and contemporary sources.

There is much more to words than a superficial one-word counterpart and this is an opportunity to understand Kaurna people and ways of talking and deep listening where one word can have many meanings in a language with only 14 letters in the alphabet and 3 of them vowels.

Many warrior Elders past and present walked miles to reclaim our language. This long- yearned-for dictionary is testament to them and an invitation for learners to sit in a Kaurna language camp to learn, share and speak in a way unheard of before.

KATRINA KARLAPANA POWER Senior Kaurna Woman

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Rob Kudnuitya Amery, a non-Aboriginal man, started working with Kaurna in 1989 and began running Kaurna language workshops in the early 1990s. From 1995 to 1998 he studied the language intensively for a PhD which was published as Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language in 2000. He has been instrumental in setting up Kaurna language programs in schools and universities.

Rob has published widely on the Kaurna language and efforts to reclaim it. Working together with Kaurna people, he continues to research many aspects of the language (placenames, Dreamings, historical materials, its current use, etc.). In 2002, together with Kauwanu Lewis and Ngarpadla Alitya, he set up Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi to plan and develop the language and to establish a process to deal with numerous requests for names and translations.

Susie Greenwood is a researcher at the University of Adelaide.

Jasmin Morley is a linguist at the University of Adelaide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wakefield Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1743059213
• ISBN 13: 9781743059210
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible