Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre

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    Author
    Sharp J.; Thieberger, N
    Date
    2001
    Source Title
    Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages
    Publisher
    Pacific Linguistics
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Thieberger, Nicholas
    Affiliation
    Arts - School of Languages and Linguistics
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    Document Type
    Book Chapter
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    Sharp, J., & Thieberger, N. (2001). Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre. In J. Simpson, D. Nash, M.Laughren, P. Austin & B. Alpher(Eds.), Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages (pp. 325-335). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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    Open Access
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/32716
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    © 2001 Janet Sharp & Nick Thieberger
    Abstract
    Aboriginal Language Centres occupy an exciting and innovative space in the fringe between academia and the people used by academia as its source of data. Now with funding that has lasted over a decade, language centres have the potential to train local people, to record and store information about local languages, and to promote the use of the languages in schools and other venues. In this paper we discuss the establishment and ongoing function of Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in Port Hedland, Western Australia (WA).
    Keywords
    Wangka Maya; Pilbara; Aboriginal languages; Aboriginal language centre

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