“Wiradjuri language”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Wiradjuri language is taught in primary schools, secondary schools and at TAFE in the towns of Parkes and Forbes with the students being both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.^[5] As of 2017 the language is also being taught in Young where it has been observed as having a positive impact on the number of pupils self identifying as Aboriginal.^[6]

Dictionary

The process of reclaiming the language was greatly assisted by the publication in 2005 of A First Wiradjuri Dictionary by elder Stan Grant Senior and consultant Dr John Rudder. John Rudder described the dictionary: "The Wiradjuri Dictionary has three main sections in just over 400 B5 pages. The first two sections, English to Wiradjuri, and Wiradjuri to English, have about 5,000 entries each. The third sections lists Names of Things grouped in categories such as animals, birds, plants, climate, body parts, colours. In addition to those main sections the dictionary contains an introduction to accurate pronunciation, a basic grammar of the language and a sample range of sentence types." A revised edition,^[7] holding over 8,000 words, was published in 2010 and launched in Wagga Wagga, with the launch described by the member for Wagga Wagga to the New South Wales Parliament.^[8]^[9] A mobile app based on the book is also available for [https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/wiradjuri-language-dictionary/id1424855887 iOS], [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.regenr8.wiradjuridictionary Android] and a [https://wiradjuri.wcclp.com.au web based] version.^[10]

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Sample vocabulary

"Wagga Wagga"

The Aboriginal inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people and the term "Wagga" and derivatives of that word in the Wiradjuri language is thought to mean 'crow'. To create the plural, reduplication is done, thus "Wagga Wagga" translates to "the place of many crows".{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Animals

Family

Numbers

Anatomy

Verbs

Other

Phrases

Introductions

Greetings

Notes

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/wrh|title=Wiradhuri|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-06-10|language=en}}
2. ^{{OED|Wiradjuri}}
3. ^{{cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780|page=xxxiv}}
4. ^There is quite some confusion over the names Wirraayarray, Wiriyarray, and Wirray Wirray. See AIATSIS:Wirraayaraay.
5. ^How a language transformed a town
6. ^
7. ^Wiradjui Dictionary, Stan Grant (SNR) and Dr John Rudder, 2010
8. ^ABC news interview with Grant
9. ^Hansard of Parliament of New South Wales, Daryl Maguire & Barry Collier, 12 November 2010
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://regenr8.org/language-revitalisation/apps/wiradjuri-dictionary/|title=Wiradjuri Dictionary - RegenR8|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-29}}
11. ^{{Cite book|title=A New Wiradjuri Dictionary|last=Grant; Rudder|first=Stan; John|publisher=|year=2010|isbn=|location=|pages=}}

Reclamation