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LING 2039 - Reclaiming Languages: a Kaurna Case Study

North Terrace Campus - Summer - 2015

The course explores issues around the reclaiming of languages by reference to the case of Kaurna, the South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n indigenous language spoken in what is now known as the Adelaide region. The course gives a fascinating insight into the ways in which Kaurna sources are being used to forge a new Kaurna identity and develop an associated language which is being used to address contemporary needs. This course will allow you to: learn some Kaurna language; develop an understanding of the structure of the Kaurna language; learn how languages are reclaimed from historical sources; understand the context (or ecology) in which the Kaurna language existed at the time of colonisation in the 1830s and 1840s; and appreciate the circumstances under which the Kaurna language is now being revived. Parallels and contrasts will be drawn between efforts to re-introduce Kaurna and similar efforts in neighbouring languages, elsewhere in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and overseas.

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