#aboriginallanguages

[motherlanguageday]

Llibraries, schools and community groups to continue celebrating the International Year of Indigenous Languages.

[mpathe]

Tree Curtains for Australia Day Parramatta Park. Language and Geology. 1791 #Patyegarang aged 15 was the lead instructor to Lt William Dawes’ transcriptions of the “Aboriginal Languages if Sydney”. . from Ross Gibson ‘Patyegarang and William Dawes: the Space of Imagination’ - “In January 1788 Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay, on Australia’s southeastern coast, with the First Fleet Marines. Lately he has loomed into contemporary awareness in Australia. This emergence has occurred after he had just about disappeared from accounts having completed his four-year Sydney sojourn in December 1791. For almost two hundred years Dawes missed out on close historical attention because his papers and effects had been assumed destroyed in family disputes and by a hurricane in Antigua during the nineteenth century. But in 1972 his two ‘language notebooks’ were discovered at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.1 Amounting to eighty small pages of spacious handwriting, the notebooks are a vital trace of the first four years of British colonisation in Australia, and since their retrieval growing numbers of scholars have been appreciating not only the timbre of Dawes’ intellect but equally the boldness and wit of the Indigenous people with whom he conversed.” . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230277946_16 #treecurtains #invasionday #rumrebellionday #ambientart #graphicdesign #livingheritage #blackshale #parramattapool #lakeparramatta #littlecoogee #smallbirdhabitat #banner #figtree #oldgovernmenthouse #parramatta #aboriginallanguage #parrapark (at Parramatta Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7sh7X-nPNu/?igshid=frttfna6rgr0

[dominicanslovehaitians]

We want to build a language school to learn everything that was taken away from us. To remember our ancestors language -to honor who we are. We want to build a language school to remember that we cannot be erased or forgotten. #decolonize #dominicanslovehaitians #remember #aboriginallanguages #ancestors #notforgotten #livinginsideme https://www.instagram.com/p/BoxvDc8nUDS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zzro2ixhk2z

[emorfinart]

Positive affirmations in Sauk. Netayikwa kêhi netêpeth. Nekohtâchi kêhi newîshikethi. Nemeshkwîkitêhe kêhi nemîshâtênemo. I'm tired but I'm happy. I'm afraid but I'm strong. I'm frustrated but I'm proud. I'm working on an art making project to raise awareness of endangered languages and engage people in dialogue using phrases and words in endangered languages. I've started with the Sauk Language an endangered North American Algonquin language. I've been studying and learning from online resources trying to use these phrases in my daily interactions with people. Here's some old high school pictures of my friends. Learn more : Talksauk.com Endangeredlanguages.com Contribute to the effort save a Sauk word by # #netêpethi #imhappy #newîshikethi #imstrong #nemîshâtênemo #improud #talksauk #endangeredlanguageartproject #positiveaffirmation #positivity #endangeredlanguages #marwenarts #nativelanguages #language #lenguaje #nativeamericanlanguages #Sauklanguage #endangeredlanguages #endageredlanguageart #endangeredlanguageartproject #talkendangeredlanguages #endangeredlanguagesdocumentation #talksauk #artmakingisdialogue #artisdialogue #art #arte #kunst #nativelanguages #aboriginallanguages #firstnations #marwenarts

[motherofpearls1-blog]

Oral's awesome art work used on the new Bundjalung language app launched yesterday at Southern Cross Uni Gnibi education centre and art exhibition #oralrobertsart #bundjalung #bundjulunglanguageapp #aboriginalculture #aboriginallanguage #gnibiaboriginaleducationcentrescu #southerncrossuniversity

[beommokimling202-blog]

Language of the past?

When you talk about different languages spoken in Canada, you can’t NOT talk about the aboriginal languages. There are roughly 50 aboriginal languages, with 11 language families existing in Canada. Half of these languages are located in BC, which also has the most diversity.

The sad thing is, these languages are becoming endangered; with each generations, the number of native speakers are decreasing. Especially since the residential schools, more and more younger generations grow up not learning their native tongue; a lot of people lack self confidence in learning/comprehending the difficult languages. 

So what are we doing to preserve the indigenous languages? In recent years, the efforts to save the aboriginal languages have increased. More and more immersion schools are being established with strict rule of no english inside the school. Parents of children are encouraged to speak with them in their native tongue to further influence their growth. Even in post secondary education systems, aboriginal languages courses are being taught to students. 

Hopefully with the recent efforts to preserve aboriginal languages in Canada, it won’t become a thing of the past. 

[motherlanguageday]

Indigenous languages are integral to who we are, and how we relate to other people.Did you know, for example, that there’s no “I” or “me” in the Aboriginal language? Those words don’t exist. This gives you an indication of the social structures of Aboriginal Peoples, and the primary importance of community.

[emorfinart]

Nahkânakwatwi. It's cloudy. Está nublado. I'm working on an art making project to raise awareness of endangered languages and engage people in dialogue using phrases and words in endangered languages. I've started with the Sauk Language an endangered North American Algonquin language. I've been studying and learning from online resources trying to use these phrases in my daily interactions with people. More to come soon. My humble and respectful thanks to the Sauk and Fox Nation and all their speakers. Kewâwiyâmenepwa! Learn more at: TalkSauk.com Contribute by taking your own cloudy pictures and #: #Nahkânakwatwi #Itscloudy #Estánublado #Sauklanguage #endangeredlanguages #endageredlanguageart #endangeredlanguageartproject #talkendangeredlanguages #endangeredlanguagesdocumentation #talksauk #artmakingisdialogue #artisdialogue #art #nativelanguages #aboriginallanguages #firstnations

[emorfinart]

Kemenwipemâtethi? Are you well? I'm working on an art making project to raise awareness of endangered languages and engage people in dialogue using phrases and words in endangered languages. I've started with the Sauk Language an endangered North American Algonquin language. I've been studying and learning from online resources trying to use these phrases in my daily interactions with people. More to come soon. My humble and respectful thanks to the Sauk and Fox Nation and all their speakers. Kewâwiyâmenepwa! Learn more at: TalkSauk.con #Kemenwipemâtethi #areyouwell #Sauklanguage #endangeredlanguages #endageredlanguageart #talkendangeredlanguages #endangeredlanguagesdocumentation #talksauk #artmakingisdialogue #artisdialogue #art #nativelanguages #aboriginallanguages #firstnations