What's a travel book without pictures? And a travel book about languages without sound? Bear with me for a series of posts related to Mark Abley's Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages that will fill in some of the audio-visual gaps. Beginning with Australia, I encourage a visit to the Postcards From Halls Creek website, poke around for pictures and give a listen to the audio program featuring voices of residents talking about their community, including some Jaru speakers. Wadeye Aboriginal Community has a similar friendly site, while the Tiwi Islands site features tempting photographs for tourists but a less personal feel.
If you want to explore some more, Aboriginal Languages of Australia might be a good place to site or the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies (check out this map). For less academic wanderings, try Aboriginal Art Online.
Happy wandering!
There is also Aboriginal language material on the following websites:
ReplyDeletestories in the Jiwarli language
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects/jiwarli/index.html
stories and songs in Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay
www.yuwalaaraay.org
pop music in Yolngu language
www.yothuyindi.com
For a Virtual Library of Aboriginal Language materials look at http://www.dnathan.com/VL/austLang.htm