On the weekend of the 7th and 8th of May, the Mobile Language Team held a 2-day meeting in Port Augusta for the Adnyamathanha community, to talk about possible project ideas for the Adnyamathanha language. The meeting was attended by different family groups within the Adnyamathanha community, with all expressing an interest in projects aimed […]
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MLT’s Celeste Humphris travelled to the Far West Language Centre in Ceduna this week to work with a group of Mirning people on their language. Participants took part in a Mirning pronunciation workshop on Wednesday, during which the group built upon existing language skills and practiced speaking their language. On Thursday, workshop participants wrote a […]
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In April 2016 the Mobile Language Team worked with Maria Stewart and Jodie Clarkson of the Aboriginal Interpreter Service in the Northern Territory to document endangered Arandic language Pertame in Apatula (Finke) community. Celeste Humphris from the MLT conducted a language recording session with Pertame speakers Christobel Swan of Alice Springs and Violet Doolan of […]
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In April the Mobile Language Team undertook emergency field recordings of Lower (Southern) Arrernte at a number of locations in the Far North of South Australia and the Northern Territory. MLT linguists accompanied Audrey Stewart and Rossie Finn to Macumba Station where both were born in the middle years of last century. Celeste Humphris (MLT) […]
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In late 2015 Ceduna based Far West Language Centre (FWLC) coordinator Lynette Ackland travelled to Adelaide to take part in a two day workshop with Mobile Language Team Media Officer Will Fisher. They worked on developing a range of digital and media skills in a one on one setting to help develop the language recording, […]
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On the 18th of November the MLT headed out to Port Pirie to take part in a language pronunciation and recording workshop for the Nukunu language. Participants worked through the Nukunu dictionary and workshopped different techniques for pronouncing different sounds in the Nukunu language. According to Aunty Rose Turner, who travelled from Gawler to attend, […]
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Over the October long weekend, Clayton attended the infamous Ceduna Oysterfest, an annual event which celebrates the towns reputation as a world-class seafood hub. Over the weekend of the festival, Clayton worked with the Far West Language Centre and the Bright Youth Foundation to work on a small language project, aimed at incorporating the Aboriginal […]
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Mobile Language Team members Clayton Cruse and Celeste Humphris attended the Puliima National Indigenous Language and Technology Forum from the 12-15th of October. Puliima is hosted by Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centreand was supported this year by the Mobile Language Team among others. Over 230 people attended from all over Australia and the world, and excellent workshops […]
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The Mobile Language Team attended this years Writers Festival “Eye of the Storm – finding home in Alice Springs at the very beautiful Olive Pink Botanic Gardens on Saturday 19th September 2015. Karina Lester, Jessica Hughes and Larissa Hughes joined Josh Santospirito (multimedia artist, illustrator and writer) in launching the Yankunytjatjara Children’s Books in a […]
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