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The Noongar Language and Culture Centre was set up at the Bunbury Aboriginal Progress Association in 1986, and grew to include offices in Northam and Perth. Authors such as Charmaine Bennell have released several books in the language. [26] Educators Glenys Collard and Rose Whitehurst started recording elders speaking using Noongar language in ...
Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959 [3]) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia. [4] Collard is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia. He has a background in literature ...
Noongarpedia is a collaborative project to add Noongar language content to Wikimedia projects and to improve all languages' content relating to Noongar topics. It is being driven by an Australian Research Council project from the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, in collaboration with Wikimedia Australia.
[a] The Noongar people refer to their land as Noongar boodja. [b] [3] The members of the collective Noongar cultural bloc descend from people who spoke several languages and dialects that were often mutually intelligible. [citation needed] What is now classified as the Noongar language is a member of the large Pama–Nyungan language family
Charmaine was a Noongar language teacher at Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School in Bunbury [1] and is now studying for a Bachelor of Arts of Indigenous Languages and Linguistics degree. [2] While working at Sister Kate's, Charmaine started the Languages Other than English program to teach Noongar.
Many words from Indigenous Australian languages have found their way into Western Australian English. Examples include gidgee (or gidgie ), a Noongar word for spear, as used in modern spear fishing; [ 3 ] and gilgie (or jilgie ), the Noongar name for a small freshwater crayfish of the South West .
The term Nyungic has been used for the bulk of the Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages (see). However, that is a geographical group, not a demonstrable family. Bowern restricts both terms to Noongar plus Galaagu, which is poorly attested and had been misclassified as one of the Mirning languages.
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