On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Gathang community members gathered to celebrate the launch of a new web portal dedicated to the revitalization of their Indigenous language. Media were invited to attend the event, which took place at 2 p.m. in Room AG 03 in the General Education building at Taree TAFE, Montgomery Crescent.
The first of its kind in Australia, the Gathang portal includes a dictionary archive, images and audio, allowing learners to go ...
Where do the names for animals and things come from? Someone at some stage made a decision: we’re going to call this animal a platypus. Actually is was during the late 18th century: from Greek platupous ‘flatfooted,’ from platus ‘flat’ + pous ‘foot.’
So being that it’s an Australian animal, what was it called in Aboriginal Languages?
Many of the languages along the coast of NSW were lost when Aboriginal people were punished and even gaoled ...
Nyamibiin Gaagalnyarr Juluumnyarr - Women from the Sea & the Mountains.
A collection of artworks in felt created by Gumbaynggiir artists, with Swiss Artist Margrit Rickenbach, are exhibiting at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative.
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts' 21st Century Stories, the works reflect the artists' stories and thoughts about changes in the first decade of the 21st Century. A catalogue is availab...
In 2007 Lillian Eastwood from the Guraki Aboriginal Advisory Committee of City of Newcastle Council consulted Muurrbay linguist Amanda Lissarrague outlining the possibility of incorporating local languages from Warrimay (Gathang) and the language from the Hunter River - Lake Macquarie for a public artwork commissioned by the Honeysuckle Development Corporation, Newcastle.
This sculpture designed by Zenscapes Landscape Architects Milne and Stonehouse, re
The language teaching resource Mayalambala is now available electronically, thanks to a collaboration between Muurrbay and Sydney Aboriginal Languages and Computing’s Cat Kutay.
Mayalambala is an innovative teaching resource that supports the teaching of Aboriginal languages. It consists of three background posters ‘In the Bush’, ‘At the Beach’ and ‘At Home’, and over two hundred pictures of people and things that can be manipulated. A User’s Guide for Gu
Congratulations to Arlene McInherney who has won second prize in the RNLD Award for Creativity in Indigenous Youth Language Projects for: Nyiirunba Gulaman: book about plants which uses the Gathang language, from central-mid north coast of New South Wales. Arlene studied the Gathang language at Port Macquarie TAFE this year. The prize winners come from four states and territories, and their entries highlight the diverse strategies that young people are cre...
Muurrbay and the Yaegl Elders are pleased to announce the launch of the Yaygirr Dictionary and Grammar at Maclean TAFE, this Friday August 3rd at 11am.
Please contact Muurrbay. Congratulations to all involved and thanks to the Australian Government's Indigenous Language Support program. Copies available from Muurrbay, email your order to MRALCAdmin@westnet.com.au
For many years the Yaegl Elders have dreamt of showing respect to the country of the Low
The Dhanggati Language Group with support from Muurrbay is currently engaged in researching Dhanggati placenames in the Macleay: those currently in use e.g. Yarrahappinni Mountain (a corruption of yarra yabani koala rolling); those not in use e.g. Baralbalayi (Anderson’s Sugarloaf Mountain); and developing new names for new infrastructure.
This includes a submission to the NSW Minister for Roads and Maritime Services to name the new bypass currently und
Djuyaliyn Gathang means 'speaking Gathang' and that is what the presenters of the show will be doing on the air waves!
A weekly Gathang language show is now being broadcast by Ngarralinyi Radio in Taree. This exciting new development in language revival has been developed over the last few months with Ngarralinyi staff particularly Cultural Officer Wayne Paulson, together with graduates of the Certificate I in Gathang and supported by staff of M...
April Mills-Thom is a Masters of Linguistics student at the University of New England. She is doing a work placement at Muurrbay and is learning about life at a busy regional language centre. In particular April is working with Dallas Walker and others who are preparing the Gumbaynggirr Toolbox database for upload to the FirstVoices project, which will see the Gumbaynggirr dictionary go online with pictures and sound. She will also help with recording ...
