Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
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Sharp J.; Thieberger, NDate
2001Source Title
Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languagesPublisher
Pacific LinguisticsUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Thieberger, NicholasAffiliation
Arts - School of Languages and LinguisticsMetadata
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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.Access Status
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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).
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Wangka Maya; Pilbara; Aboriginal languages; Aboriginal language centreExport Reference in RIS Format
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