Palawa Kani Language Program

Palawa kani is a constructed language created as a generic revival of the Tasmanian languages, the extinct languages once. This sample is a eulogy by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Language Program first used at the 2004 anniversary of the Risdon Cove massacre of 1804. Jul 9, 2013 - TESS ATTO is a palawa kani Language Worker at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre runs a program that.

Aaye ho meri zindagi mein mp3 free download. A Federal Government hearing has recently heard that many Aboriginal languages are in danger of extinction with just 20 to 30 considered 'viable'. More than 250 languages were spoken in 1788 but the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies was able to identify only 145 languages in 2005.

Of those, 110 were classified as 'severely and critically endangered'. The standing committee for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs has been told it could cost $90 million to save the languages under threat.

However Tasmania has been leading the way with the teaching of palawa kani, which translates to 'Tassie black fella talk'. The Aboriginal Children Centre's (ACC) Alison Overeem told 936 Breakfast's Ryk Goddard, it's not a lost language, it was a sleeping language. 'Much of our history is oral history, so there were gaps in documentation,' she says. 'Although there were some recordings. There were many gaps in that but there was certainly enough there for us to retrieve that language to have what we now use every day.' Ms Overeem attended the standing committee hearing in Canberra.

The committee wanted to know how Tasmania was leading the way in saving its native languages. 'It's not just about using our language, it's about practicing our culture,' she says. 'The embracing of that by our community and by non-Aboriginal community is overwhelming and little-known.' From ja (hello) to wulika (goodbye), palawa kani is a reconstruction of around 12 Tasmanian Aboriginal languages and is taught to young children at the ACC at Risdon Cove.

Risdon Cove was the site of the first British settlement in Tasmania in 1804. It was handed back to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community under the 1995 Aboriginal Lands Act.

Lutana Spotswood famously gave a eulogy in palawa kani at the funeral of the Tasmanian Premier Jim Bacon. Palawa kani is also used on a number of signs in Tasmanian National Parks and Kunanyi has been accepted as an official name for Mount Wellington and the Asbestos Range National Park is now known. It has also been suggested that the creation of palawa kani by one particular group is linked to a political and cultural dispute between two Tasmanian groups (the Palawa and the Lia Pootah.