Brian Loo Soon Hua - Reviving Awabakal - An Indigenous Language from New South Wales, Australia

The Awabakal language was the original language of the Newcastle-Lake Macquairie area just to the north of Sydney, New South Wales. Awabakal was the first Australian Aboriginal language to be recorded in detail by Europeans and the corpus of texts consists primarily of grammars, glossaries and Bible translations. The language has been extinct since the mid to late 19th century. Currently being revived, the process involves painstaking research using handwritten texts by untrained lexicographers encountering an unknown language with "exotic" phonological and grammatical structures for the very first time. The language died out before recording instruments became widely available. Awabakal possesses several rare syntactic properties that will be explored during the talk. It has a complex structure, with nominative-accusative, ergative-absolutive and tripartite alignments occurring simultaneously on different nouns and pronouns in the same sentence.
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I think that's what polyglots should do in the future , learning indigenous languages ,it helps historians to learn more about the history.

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Super interesting to see which sources from the colonial past can now be used for a good purpose, for reviving an indigenous language!