[Wikimediaau-l] Aboriginal languages (reply)

[Gnangarra]

The first question is do we have anyone with the language skills, the wiki
skills and the time to dedicate to getting an aboriginal language(any one of
them) Wikipedia up and successful.

Literally we can could do more harm to the language, culture and WMAU
through ignorance and misspent good intentions.

Gn.

2008/7/31 Janet Hawtin <lucychili at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Orderinchaos78
> <orderinchaos78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Yes, sadly there are dead aboriginal languages, but there are plenty of
> >> others that are not only alive, but are the first and primary language
> of
> >> many people.
>
> It is challenging to introduce wikipedia to people in Aboriginal
> communities.
> The languages in articles about them is as above.
> The language of this people is extinct.
> Showing that to someone who speaks it is confronting for both of us.
> It is probably considered primary research to change the article when
> it was referenced to a book.
> But sometimes the truth is not published.
> And it seemed the right thing to do.
> Janet
>
> >> I saw a program on Four Corners* looking into the poor English literacy
> >> rates on the Tiwi Islands. The reason -- the children were instead
> >> literate
> >> in Tiwi -- their first language. To me that screams "opportunity for
> >> another
> >> language Wikipedia & Wiktionary".
> >
> > Saw the same one :) Here in Perth and in the South West, Nyungar/Noongar
> is
> > very common, and in the far north (Kimberley region) two or three
> languages
> > are particularly common, as is a standardised Kriol (which is different
> to
> > other creoles of course due to different source languages and, oddly, the
> > influence of Malay and Mandarin which goes back a long way).
> >
> > Oh and Alex - gmail doesn't easily allow one to change the topic and when
> I
> > do (such as now), I have to actually remember or guess at what the old
> topic
> > was. If gmail allowed folders I'd undigest it and set up a rule but
> > otherwise at times like the last few days I'd be getting a flood of
> little
> > emails.
> >
> > cheers
> > Andrew
> >
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