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Giacon, John – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
This paper primarily considers the role of linguists in the process of language rebuilding, or language revival, that is, the process of working with a language that is no longer spoken so that it is spoken again. The paper is largely based on experience with Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay, two closely-related languages from northern New South Wales…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Languages, Language Research
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Smith, Hilary Anne; Giacon, John; McLean, Bonnie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Australia is a 'hotspot' of Indigenous language endangerment, but has a growing number of language revival projects. We describe one such project which is using a community development approach for the revival of the Gamilaraay language in north-eastern New South Wales. As a result of colonisation there are now no fluent speakers of Gamilaraay and…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations