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Title:		Identification of Spears, Spear Throwers, Clubs, Harpoons 01 (Part 1 of 2)
		dvR_050926_T1
		Yiwarrunj, yinyman, radbiyi lda mali: Iwaidja and Other Endangered Languages of the Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) in their Cultural Context
Contributor:		Bruce
		Nick
		Kim
Contributor (consultant):		Khaki
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2005-09-26
Description:		The researchers show the informant photos of historical spears, spear throwers, clubs and harpoons which were found in North Western Arnhem Land and which are housed with the SA Museum. They ask the informant to identify the different objects in Iwaidja. Additionally, one of the researchers draws the objects which have been identified by the informant to verify the Iwaidja terms. (Part 1 of 2)
		This project documents, in as full a cultural context as is possible, the Iwaidja language of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia (Iwaidjan language family, non-Pama-Nyungan), still spoken by around 200 people but under increasing threat from English, as well as recording material from other languages of the region (Marrgu, Ilgar/ Garig, Amurdak and Manangkari) which are all reduced to one or two speakers each. In addition to linguists, the research team will include specialists in ethnomusicology, material culture / archaeology, and social anthropology, and will result in a comprehensive, searchable and browsable sound and video documentation, with Iwaidja transcriptions and subtitles alongside English translations, an Iwaidja dictionary of around 5,000 words, detailed phonetic analysis, and briefer materials on other languages of the area.
		The researchers show the informant photos of historical spears, spear throwers, clubs and harpoons which were found in North Western Arnhem Land and which are housed with the SA Museum and ask the informant to identify the different types. Additionally, one of the researchers draws the objects which are identified by the informant to verify their Iwaidja names.
		Khaki Marrala is a senior Murran clan member whose father’s language was Iwaidja and whose mother’s language was Marrku. Khaki was born at Waningurarlarl in the Malay Bay area of; the Murran clan estate, situtated on the mainland not far from Croker Island, probably around 1930. As a child and adolescent he travelled extensively throughout the Cobourg Region and retains today a thorough knowledge of the area and its resources. At the time of the Second World War, when the mission on Croker was established, he was living at Inyjinaj on Croker Island, looking after and providing for a group of older Marrku speaking people. In the early days of the mission he worked on supply ships servicing the northern coast, and later settled more or less permanently at Minjilang where he worked, among other things, as a gardener. He remains at Minjilang today, where he is a key Iwaidja and Marrku language consultant for both the Iwaidja Documentation Project and Minjilang Endangered Languages Publishing Project.
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Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C394-9
		IW
Publisher:		Nicholas Evans
		University of Melbourne
Subject:		Discourse
		Interview
		Spears, Spear Thrower, Clubs, Harpoons
		Iwaidja language
		English language
Subject (ISO639):		ibd
		eng
Type:		audio
		video
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C394-9
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		Bruce; Nick; Kim; Khaki (consultant). 2005-09-26. Nicholas Evans.
Terms:		area_Europe area_Pacific country_AU country_GB iso639_eng iso639_ibd
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Country:		AustraliaUnited Kingdom
Area:		EuropePacific