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Course Coordinater:
Dr Rob AMERY
Napier Building, Rm 910.                                               
Tel: 8313 3924                                     
e-mail: rob.amery@adelaide.edu.au        (emails read regularly) 

Lecturers: Dr Rob AMERY with input from Kaurna people. 

Liaison Librarian for the Faculty of Arts:
Ursula Henderson
Barr Smith Library
Tel: 0430 212 062
e-mail:  ursula.henderson@adelaide.edu.au

This course aims to:
* Develop understandings of linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of language reclamation
* Introduce students to the Kaurna language
* Trace the efforts by various observers to document the Kaurna language in the 19th century
* Investigate the ways in which the Kaurna language is used in the 21st century.

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
1. Respectfully contribute to a language reclamation effort alongside owners and custodians of that language.
2. Apply linguistic analytical skills in the interpretation and assessment of historical source material
3. Understand the relationship between revived languages and their antecedents
4. Draw comparisons between a range of language reclamation movements and identify common features and points of difference.
5. Appreciate the importance of the Kaurna language to the Kaurna community and the general public living on the Adelaide Plains.
6. Gain insights, through a study of the Kaurna language, into the early contact history, Indigenous cultures, placenames, the environment and Nunga English.
7. Understand and apply the revised Kaurna spelling system.
8. Demonstrate a knowledge of the emerging functions and use of the Kaurna language within the Kaurna community, in the education sector and in the public domain.
9. Gain familiarity with common Kaurna expressions such as greetings, leave-takings, introductions, requests, commands, questions and statements.
10. Appreciate the role played by Kaurna language reclamation within the global renaissance of Indigenous languages.
11. Write a coherent and logically argued essay drawing on a range of perspectives and source materials in answer to a question posed.

Course text book:

Kaurna Language Resources (Go to /kwp/resources/):


Course Readers (now online at MyUni):

Section A - relating to Kaurna and neighbouring language groups

Amery, Rob (2020) Teaching Aboriginal Languages at University” To What End? In J. Fornasiero, S.M.A. Reed, R. Amery, E. Bouvet, K. Enomoto & H.L. Xu (Eds) Intersections in Language Planning and Policy: Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures. Language Policy 23, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50925-5_29 Springer Nature, Switzerland AG 2020. pp.475-489.

Amery, Rob (2020) Emotion Metaphors in an Awakening Language: Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains. Emotion, body and mind across a continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages. Special Issue of Pragmatics and Cognition. Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann & Isabel O’Keeffe.

Amery, Rob (2018) The Homecoming of an Indigenous Australian Diaspora as Impetus for Language Revival: Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. Invited paper for a Special Issue (Editors: Kathleen Heugh, Angela Scarino and Christopher Stroud) on Southern Theory of Current Issues in Language Planning. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2018.1503390.

Amery, Rob (2018) Koeler and the Dresdners: contrasting views of five Germans towards Indigenous peoples in South Australia. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, Special Edition: Culture Contact in Indigenous Australia edited by Amy Roberts and Daryl Wesley. Vol.42: 134-163

Amery, Rob (2016) The Kaurna Diaspora and its Homecoming: Understanding the loss and re-emergence of the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. In Peter K. Austin, Harold Koch and Jane Simpson (eds) Language, Land and Song, London: EL Publishing. pp.502-522.

Amery, Rob (2017) Warra Kaurna Yalaka, Warra Kaurna Pukinangku. Kaurna Language Today, Kaurna Language From Long Ago. (revision of Warra Kaurna. A Resource for Kaurna Language Programs). Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi (KWP), Adelaide.

Amery, Rob (2016) Warraparna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language. 成人大片 Press. /press/titles/kaurna/ebook and Paperback. (Revision of Amery (2000) Warraparna Kaurna with revised spellings, additional chapter discussing developments since 2000 and reworked Conclusions)

Amery, Rob (2015) Kaurna. in Nicola Grandi & Livia Körtvélyessy (eds) Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology. Edinburgh University Press. 423-429.

Amery, Rob (2014) Reclaiming the Kaurna language: a long and lasting collaboration in an urban setting. Special issue edited by John Henderson The Role of Linguists in Indigenous Community Language Programs in Australia ofLanguage Documentation and Conservation. 8: 409-429. (http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc)  


Amery, Rob (2013) A Matter of Interpretation: Language Planning for a Sleeping Language, Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide
Plains, South Australia, Language Problems and Language Planning, 37 (2): 101-124.

Amery, Rob (2013) ‘Authenticity and correction of errors in the context of language reclamation’ . History and Philosophy of the
Language Sciences.  

Amery, Rob (2012) Four Dresdners in South Australia in the early-mid nineteenth century: a lasting legacy for Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri
and Barngarla peoples. Zeitschrift für Australienstudien 26.

Amery, Rob (2012) Taking to the airwaves: a strategy for language revival. In M. Ponsonnet, L. Dao & M. Bowler (Eds.)Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference - 2011. Australian National University Canberra ACT, 5-6 December 2011. ANU Digital Collections  

Amery, Rob (2010) Monitoring the Use of Kaurna, the Language of the Adelaide Plains. In John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan
Poetsch & Michael Walsh (eds.) Re-awakening Languages: Theory and practice in the revitalization of Australia’s Indigenous
languages. Sydney University Press. Pages 56-66.

Amery, Rob (2009) Kaurna Language Reclamation and the Formulaic Method. In Wesley Y Leonard & Stelómethet Ethel B Gardner (Eds.) Language is Life. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference June 10-13, 2004 at University of California at Berkeley. Report 14, Survey of California and other Indian Languages. Pages 81-99. On line at:  

Amery, Rob (2004) Beyond Their Expectations: Teichelmann and Schürmann’s efforts to preserve the Kaurna language continue to bear fruit. In Veit, Walter F. ed. The Struggle for Souls and Science. Constructing the Fifth Continent: German Missionaries and Scientists in Australia. Alice Springs: Strehlow Research Centre: Occasional Papers, pp.9-28.

Amery, Rob(2002) Indigenous Language Programs in South Australian Schools: Issues, Dilemmas and Solutions. Paper prepared for the NSW Board of Studies. March 2002. Available at:  

Amery, Rob (2002) ‘Marginalised Relics or Dynamic Modern Languages? Emerging Issues when Australia’s Indigenous Languages Modernise.’ Babel 37(2): 10-15; 37-38.

Amery, Rob (2002) 'Weeding out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms on the Adelaide Plains.' In Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges &
Jane Simpson (eds) The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, 165-180.

Amery, Rob (2001) ‘Language Planning and Language Revival’ Current Issues in Language Planning. 2(2&3): 141-221.

Amery, Rob (2000) Kaurna Dreaming Stories - report prepared for KACHA Inc. as part of the "Reviving the Dreaming" project, National Estate Grants program.

Amery, Rob (2000) 'The Role of Kaurna Linguistic and Cultural Heritage in the Reconciliation Movement.' paper delivered at the Australian History Association 2000 Conference, 成人大片, 5-9 July.

Amery, Rob (2000) The First Lutheran Missionaries in South Australia and their contribution to Kaurna language reclamation and the reconciliation movement.Journal of Friends of Lutheran Archives, October 2000, 30-58.

Amery, Rob (2000) Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, The Netherlands.

Amery, Rob (1998) Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming Aboriginal Languages from Written Historical Sources: Kaurna Case Study. PhD Thesis, 成人大片.

Amery, Rob (1998) 'Sally and Harry: Insights into early Kaurna contact history.' in Hercus & Simpson (eds.) History in Portraits: Biographies of Nineteenth Century South Australian Aboriginal People. Aboriginal History monograph, Canberra, 49-87.

Amery, Rob (1997) Case Study 3.1 [Overcoming Temporal Isolation] in DETE 1998 Towards Successful Language Learning in
Schools: A Collection of Case Studies, Department of Education, Training & Employment, South Australia, 85-90.

Amery, Rob (1996) 'Kaurna in Tasmania: a case of mistaken identity' Aboriginal History 20: 24-50.

Amery, Rob (1996) Topic 5 'Language Reclamation' & Topic 6 'Language Awareness in South Australia' pp.145-192 in EAL551 'Teaching Australian Indigenous Languages' STUDY GUIDE, Northern Territory University.

Amery, Rob (1995) 'Its Ours to Keep and Call Our Own: reclamation of the Nunga languages in the Adelaide region, South Australia.' in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language No 113: 63-82.

Amery, Rob (1995) 'Making use of historical language materials' in Thieberger (ed.) Paper and Talk: A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian indigenous languages from historical sources. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.

Amery, Rob (1993) 'Encoding New Concepts in Old Languages: a case study of Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains' in Australian Aboriginal Studies No.1, 1993: 37-47.

Amery, Rob (1992) 'Retrieving Cultural and Linguistic Heritage: Revival and Resurrection of Aboriginal Languages' in 9th
National Languages Conference Conference Proceedings. Modern Languages Teachers Association, Darwin.

Amery, Rob & Vincent (Jack) Kanya Buckskin (2014) Pinning down Kaurna names: linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Place Names Database. Trends in Toponymy Conference: Indigenous Identity and Theoretical Developments in Placenames Research, University of Ballarat November 2007. In I.D. Clark, L. Hercus, L. Kostanski (eds) Indigenous and Minority Place Names
– Australian and International Perspectives. ANU ePress & Aboriginal History Inc., Canberra, 187-212.

Amery, Rob & Jack Kanya Buckskin (2013) Having it Both Ways: Towards recognition of the Kaurna language movement within the community and within the university sector. Proceedings of FEL XVII Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Community Connections, Collaborative Approaches, and Cross-Disciplinary Research. The Seventeenth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages: Ottawa, Canada. October 2013.

Amery, Rob & Jack Buckskin (2012) Handing on the teaching of Kaurna language to Kaurna Youth. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 2: 31-41.

Amery, Rob & Jack Buckskin (2012) A comparison of traditional Kaurna kinship patterns with those used in contemporary Nunga English. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 1: 49-62.

Amery, Rob & Mary-Anne Gale (2000) Kaurna Warra Yellakaitya — Developing the Kaurna Language for Contemporary Situations. Report of Kaurna language development workshops held in November 2000 between members of the Kaurna community and Kaurna programs in schools, Aboriginal Education Unit, Enfield.

Amery, Rob, Gara, Tom & Mühlhäusler, Peter. (2006) Hermann Koeler’s Adelaide: Observations on the Language and Culture of South Australia by the First German Visitor. Australian Humanities Press, Adelaide.

Amery, Rob & O’Brien, Dennis (2007). Funeral Liturgy as a Strategy for Language Revival. Pp. 457-467 in Jeff Siegel, John Lynch & Diana Eades (eds.) Linguistic Description and Linguistic Applications: Studies in Memory of Terry Crowley. John Benjamins.

Amery, Rob & Katrina Karlapina Power (2019) The Role of Land, Fire and Water in the Kaurna Cultural and Linguistic Renaissance. In Dany Adone, Melanie Brück & Bentley James (eds.) Fire, Water and Land in Indigenous Cultures of Australia. Centre for Australian Studies, University of Cologne

Amery, Rob & Rigney, Alice Wallara. (2006)Kaurna Palti Wonga – Kaurna Funeral Protocols. Kaurna Warra Pintyandi, Adelaide.
[Booklet with accompanying CD. Contains funeral liturgy in Kaurna, including translations of the Lord’s Prayer, Psalm 23, Bible verses and hymns – The Old Rugged Cross, Till We Meet Again, Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art & What a Friend We Have in Jesus.]

Amery, Rob & Jane Simpson with members of Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi (2013) Kulurdu Marni Ngathaitya – Sounds Good to
Me. A Kaurna Learner’s Guide. Kaurna Warra Pintyandi in association with Wakefield Press, Kent Town.

Amery, Rob & Jane Simpson (1994) 'Kaurna '- pp.144-172 in Macquarie Aboriginal Words Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney.

Amery, Rob & Georgina Yambo Williams (2002) 'Reclaiming Through Renaming: The Reinstatement of Kaurna Toponyms in Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains.' In Louise Hercus , Flavia Hodges & Jane Simpson (eds) The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous
Origin in Australia, 255-276.

Beretta, Valentina (2012) Language Revitalisation in Australia. The case of the Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains (South Australia) Dissertation, University’ Degli Studi Milano.

Berndt, Ronald & Catherine Berndt with John Stanton (1993) A World That Was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic.

Black, J.M. (1920) Vocabularies of four South Australian languages, Adelaide, Narrunga, Kukata, and Narrinyeri with special reference to their speech sounds. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 44: 76-93 Adelaide.

Brodie, Veronica (2002)My Side of the Bridge. as told to Mary-Anne Gale. Wakefield Press, Kent Town.

Cawthorne, W.A. (1844) Rough Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Natives [Archives Department]. Published in Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society of Australia, S.A. Br., Sess. 1925-6 (1927)

Chittelborough, J. (1906) "Primitive Adelaide" in The Register, 27/28 December 1906. [article includes a short Kaurna wordlist]

Clarke, Philip (1990) 'Adelaide Aboriginal Cosmology.' pp. 1-10 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 1.

Clarke, Philip (1998) 'The Aboriginal presence on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.' in Hercus & Simpson (eds.) History in Portraits: Biographies of Nineteenth Century South Australian Aboriginal People. Aboriginal History monograph, Canberra, 14-48.

Department for Education and Children's Services (2002) Kaurna Meyunna, Kaurna Yerta Tampendi Walking Trail Guide. Adelaide.

Department for Education and Children's Services (1996) Indigenous Languages in South Australian Preschools and Schools. [incomplete draft]

Department for Education and Children's Services (1998) Warranna Purruttiappendi - Reviving Languages - Living Languages: Renewal and Reclamation Programs for Indigenous Languages in Schools.

Department for Education and Children's Services (1997) Warranna Purruna - Pa:mpi Tungarar 'Living Languages' video.

Disbray, S., Barker, C., Raghunathan, A., & Baisden F. (2018) Global Lessons: Indigenous languages and multilingualism in school programs. First Languages Australia. Contains Kaurna case study pp. 45-48.

Education Department of South Australian (1989) The Kaurna People: Aboriginal People of the Adelaide Plains. Publications Branch.

Eyre, Edward John (1845)Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's
Sound, in the years 1840-1841. T. & W. Boone, London.

Fitzpatrick, Phil (1989) Warra ‘Kaurna. A selected wordlist from the language of the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains. Aboriginal Heritage Branch. Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide.

Foster, Robert (1990) 'The Aborigines Location in Adelaide: South Australia's first 'Mission' to the Aborigines.' pp. 11-37 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 1.

Foster, Robert (1990) 'Two Early Reports on the Aborigines of South Australia.' pp. 38-63 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 1.

Foster, Robert & Peter Mühlhäusler (1996) 'Native Tongue, Captive Voice. The Representation of the Aboriginal 'Voice' in Colonial South Australia.' pp. 1-16 in Language & Communication, Vol. 16, No. 1.

Gaimard, M. (1833) 'Vocabulaire de la langue des Habitants du Golfe Saint-Vincent.' in De M.J. Dumont D'Urville Voyage de Découvertes de L'Astrolabe 1826-1827-1828-1829: Philologie Publié par Le Ministère de la Marine, Paris.

Gale, Mary-Anne, Rob Amery & Jack Buckskin (2013) Workshop #5. Port Adelaide TAFE, 15-19th April 2013. TAFE Certificate III ‘Learning an Endangered Aboriginal Language (Kaurna)’

Gale, Mary-Anne, Rob Amery & Jack Buckskin (2012) Workshop #4. Relationships Australia SA, Hindmarsh, 17th – 21st December 2012.TAFE Certificate III ‘Learning an Endangered Aboriginal Language (Kaurna)’

Gale, Mary-Anne, Rob Amery & Jack Buckskin (2012) Workshop #3. Relationships Australia SA, Hindmarsh, 24-28th September 2012. TAFE Certificate III ‘Learning an Endangered Aboriginal Language (Kaurna)’ Gale,

Gale, Mary-Anne, Rob Amery & Jack Buckskin (2012) Workshop #2. Relationships Australia SA, Hindmarsh, 9-13th July 2012. TAFE Certificate III ‘Learning an Endangered Aboriginal Language (Kaurna)’

Gale, Mary-Anne, Rob Amery & Jack Buckskin (2012) Workshop #1. 成人大片, 10-14th & 25th April 2012. TAFE Certificate III ‘Learning an Endangered Aboriginal Language (Kaurna)’

Gara, Tom. (1990) 'The life of Ivaritji ('Princess Amelia') of the Adelaide tribe.' pp. 64-104 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 1.

Gara, Tom. (1990) 'Bibliography of the Kaurna.' pp. 143-164 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 2.

Gara, Tom (1998) 'The Life and Times of Mullawirraburka ('King John') of the Adelaide Tribe' in Hercus & Simpson (eds.) History in
Portraits: Biographies of Nineteenth Century South Australian Aboriginal People. Aboriginal History monograph, Canberra, 88-132.

Gell, John Philip (1842) The Vocabulary of the Adelaide Tribe. Typescript held by South Australian Museum, as published in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, Agriculture, Statistics, &c. Vol.1 pp. 109-124, 1842.

Hamacher, Duane W. (2015) Identifying seasonal stars in Kaurna astronomical traditions. Journal of Astronomical History &
Heritage, 18(1): 39-52.

Harris, Rhondda (1999) Archaeology and Post-Contact Indigenous Adelaide. Hons. thesis, Flinders University.

Hemming, Steve & Rhondda Harris (1998) Tarndanyungga Kaurna Yerta. A Report on the Indigenous Cultural Significance of the Adelaide Parklands. (report prepared for KACHA Inc. and the Adelaide City Council)

Hemming, Steve (1990) ''Kaurna' Identity: a brief history.' pp.126-142 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 2.

Hercus, Luise (1992) A Nukunu Dictionary. Published by the author, Canberra.

Kemp-Attrill, Gilbert (2009) Linguistic Landscapes and Language Reclamation in Adelaide. Honours Thesis, 成人大片.

Kiesling, Heike (2000) Language Loss and Revival with special reference to the Kaurna language, the native language of the Aboriginal people of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. Diplomarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades einer
Magistra der Philosophie an der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria.

Klose, Samuel (1840 – 1845). Correspondence. Original MSS in German held by the Lutheran Archives, Leipzig. Typescript copies and English translations held by the Lutheran Archives, Adelaide.

Koeler, Dr Hermann (1842) ) 'Einige Notizen über die Eingebornen an der Ostkuste des St Vincent-Golfs in Süd-Austrlaien. 1837 und 1838' in Monatsberichte über die Verhandluingen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin.

Moorhouse, Mathew (1843) letter to Sir George Grey

Morley, Jasmin & Rob Amery (2014) Kaurna Language Dictionary (PILOT EDITION) Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi (KWP), University
of Adelaide University, Australia. (LIMITED DISTRIBUTION)

NAPA (2006) Nharangga Warra Narungga Dictionary. Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association Inc., Maitland.

Ngarrindjeri, Narrunga and Kaurna Languages Project (1990) Narrunga, Kaurna & Ngarrindjeri Songs

O'Brien, Lewis (1990) 'My Education.' pp. 105-125 in Gara (ed) Aboriginal Adelaide. Vol. 28, No. 2.

O'Connor, Luisa (1998) 'Kudnarto.' in Hercus & Simpson (eds.) History in Portraits: Biographies of Nineteenth Century South
Australian Aboriginal People. Aboriginal History monograph, Canberra, 133-157.

Piesse, Louis. (1840) Letter to South Australian Colonist July 1840.

Pope, Alan (1989) Resistance and Retaliation: Aboriginal-European Relations in Early Colonial South Australia. Heritage
Action, Bridgewater. [BSL 305.89915 P825r]

Schultz, Chester (2012 onwards) Essays on specific Kaurna placenames: /kwp/placenames/research-publ/

Schultz, Chester (forthcoming). 'Ask the right question, then look everywhere: Finding and interpreting the old Aboriginal place-names around Adelaide and Fleurieu Peninsula.' Australian National Placenames Survey 2011 Workshop, Adelaide, 2
September 2011.

Schultz, Chester (forthcoming). Feet on the Fleurieu.

Schultz, Chester; Varcoe, Snooky; Watkins, Cherie & Amery, Rob (1999) Kaurna Paltinna — A Kaurna Songbook. Kaurna Plains School, Elizabeth.

Schurmann, Edwin A. (1987) I'd Rather Dig Potatoes: Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia 1838-1853.

Simpson, Jane (1992) 'Notes on a Manuscript Dictionary of Kaurna.' pp.409-415 in Dutton, Ross & Tryon (Eds.)The Language Game:
Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock. Pacific Linguistics Series C- 110.

Simpson, Jane (1996) 'Early Language Contact Varieties in South Australia.' pp. 169-207 in Australian Journal of Linguistics. Vol.
16, 1996.

Simpson, Jane (1998) 'Aboriginal personal names on the Fleurieu Peninsula at the time of the invasion.' in Hercus & Simpson (eds.) History in Portraits: Biographies of Nineteenth Century South Australian Aboriginal People. Aboriginal History monograph, Canberra, 221-229.

Simpson, Jane & Rob Amery (forthcoming) A Grammar of Kaurna. To be published by Pacific Linguistics.

Simpson, Jane, Rob Amery & Mary-Anne Gale (2008) ‘I could have saved you linguists a lot of time and trouble: 180 years of research and documentation of South Australia’s Indigenous languages, 1826-2006’ Pp. 85-144 in William B. McGregor (ed) Encountering Aboriginal Languages: Studies in the History of Australian Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, ANU Canberra.

Simpson, Jane; Hercus, Luise (2004). "Thura-Yura as a subgroup". In Claire Bowern & Harold Koch. Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

SSABSA (1996)Australia's Indigenous Languages (ed. by David Nathan) Wakefield Press, Adelaide.

Stephens, Edward (1889) 'The Aborigines of Australia. Being Personal Recollections of those Tribes which once inhabited the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.' Read before the Royal Society of NSW, October 2, 1889.

Taplin, Rev George (1879) The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines. E. Spiller,
Acting Government Printer, Adelaide.

Teichelmann, C.G. (1841) Aboriginals of South Australia: Illustrative and explanatory note of the manners, customs, habits and superstitions of the natives of South Australia. Adelaide.

Teichelmann, C.G. (1858) Of the Verb. ms. 8vo. Pp. 3. No. 57 Bleek's Catalogue of Sir George Grey's Library dealing with Australian languages, South African Public Library)

Teichelmann, C.G. (1857) Dictionary of the Adelaide Dialect. ms. 4vo. Pp. 99 (with double columns). No. 59 Bleek's Catalogue of Sir George Grey's Library dealing with Australian languages, South African Public Library)

Teichelmann, C.G. and C.W. Schürmann (1840) Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of SouthAustralia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide. Adelaide. Published by the authors at the native location. Facsimile edition 1962 State Library of South Australia. Facsimile edition 1982. Tjintu Books, Adelaide.

Telfer, Karl Winda & Gavin Malone with assistance from Matthew Osborne & Tom Gara (2012) The City of Charles Sturt Kaurna Meyunna Cultural Mapping. A people’s living cultural landscape. Cultural Research Education Design. http://www.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/City%20of%20Charles%20Sturt,%20Kaurna%20Meyunna%20Cultural%20Mapping,%20A%20People%E2%80%99s%20Living%20Cultural%20Landscape.pdf

Tindale, Norman B. (1935) 'Legend of Waijungari, Jaralde Tribe, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia and the phonetic system employed in its transcription.' pp. 261-274 in Records of the South Australian Museum. Vol. 5, No. 3.

Tindale, Norman B. (1936) Notes on the natives of the southern portion of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.' pp. 55-69 in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. Vol. 60.

Tindale, Norman B. (1974) Aboriginal tribes of Australia: their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits and proper names. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.

Tindale, Norman B. (1987) 'The Wanderings of Tjirbruki: A Tale of the Kaurna People of Adelaide.' in Records of the South Australian Museum. Vol. 20, May 1987: 5-13.

Varcoe, Nelson (1994) 'Nunga Languages at Kaurna Plains School' in Deborah Hartman & JohnHenderson (ed.) Aboriginal Languages in Education IAD Press, Alice Springs.

Wafer, Jim & Amanda Lissarrague (2008)A Handbook of Aboriginal Languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Cooperative.

Walsh, Michael (2001) Book Review: Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language. In Current Issues in Language Planning 2(2&3): 300-302.

Waria-Read, Pat, Rob Amery, Mary-Anne Gale & Guy Tunstill (2009) Ngadjuri Wordlist. Ngadjuri Walpa Juri Lands and Heritage
Association, Adelaide.

Watkins, Cherie Warrara & Mary-Anne Gale (2006) Kaurna Alphabet Book. Kaurna Plains School, Elizabeth.

Watts, Emma Louise (2003) Success in Minority Language Revival Programmes: a case study of Hawaiian, Irish and Kaurna. Honour Thesis, 成人大片.

Williams, W. (1839) A vocabulary of the languages of the Aborigines of the Adelaide district, and other friendly tribes, of the Province of South Australia. Adelaide.

Woods, J.D. ed. (1879) The Native Tribes of South Australia. Adelaide.

Wyatt, William (1923) 'Some account of the Manners and Superstitions of the Adelaide and Encounter Bay Aboriginal Tribes with a Vocabulary of their Languages, Names of Persons and Places etc.' reprint from Woods ed. (1879)The Native Tribes of South Australia Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son in Parkhouse (Ed.) Reprints and Papers relating to the Autochthones of Australia, Parkhouse, Woodville, 1923.





Section B - relating to language revival, language and identity and language policy

Abley, Mark (1992) 'The prospects for the Huron language.' in Times Literary Supplement , August 7 1992: 4.

Amery, Rob (2009) Phoenix or Relic? Documentation of Languages with Revitalization in Mind. Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C) December 2009 issue (Volume 3, Number 2). On-line at:

Amery, Rob (2002) ‘Marginalised Relics or Dynamic Modern Languages? Emerging Issues when Australia’s Indigenous Languages Modernise.’ Babel 37(2): 10-15; 37-38.

Amery, Rob (2001) ‘Language Planning and Language Revival’ Current Issues in Language Planning. 2(2&3): 141-221.

Amery (unpublished) 'What Can or Should you do with a Dead Language?' Submitted forpublication in VOX, but journal
discontinued.

Amery, Rob & Mary-Anne Gale (2008) ‘But our language was just asleep: a history of language revival in Australia.’ Pp. 339-382 in William B. McGregor (ed)Encountering Aboriginal Languages: Studies in the History of Australian Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, ANU Canberra.

Amery, Rob & Joshua Nash (eds.) (2008) Warra Wiltaniappendi. Strengthening Languages. Proceedings of the Inaugural
Indigenous Languages Conference (ILC) 2007. 24-27 September 2007, 成人大片.

Anderson, A.B. (1979) 'The Survival of Ethnolinguistic Minorities: Canadian and Comparative Research.' pp. 67-85 in Giles & Saint-Jacques (eds.)Language and Ethnic Relations.

Bradley, David & Maya Bradley (eds) (2002) Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance Routledge Curzon, London. [BSL 408.9 B8112l]

Brown, Michael F. (1998) 'Can Culture be Copyrighted?' Current Anthropology, Vol.39, No.2: 193-222.

Cantoni, Gina ed. (1996) Stabilising Indigenous Languages. Centre for Excellence in Education, Northern Arizona University.

Commonwealth of Australia (1992) Language and Culture - A Matter of Survival: Report of the Inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Maintenance. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, June 1992, AGPS, Canberra.

Commonwealth Department of Employment Education and Training (1991) Australia's Language: The Australian Language and Literacy Policy, AGPS, Canberra.

Commonwealth Department of Employment Education and Training (1995) Alive and Deadly: Reviving and Maintaining Australian Indigenous Languages. Social Change Media, Leichardt NSW.

Crystal, David (2000) Language Death. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [BSL 417.7 C9571]

Dalby, Andrew (2002)Language in Danger Penguin, London.[BSL417.7 D137l]

De Chicchis, Joseph (1995) 'The Current State of the Ainu Language.' pp.103-124 in Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural
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Kaurna Language Resources online
A wide selection of on-line Kaurna resources are available. You will find the Course Profile, PowerPoint presentations and a sample exam paper on MyUni. In addition you will find Kaurna wordlists and other Kaurna language resources at Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi
web pages on the Adelaide University site at:  

To view Kaurna placenames and accompanying information on GoogleEarth maps go to:
and Kaurna place names in the Public Arena Post -1980

MOOC: Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages. (Week 4 focuses on the Kaurna language)  



Note also:

Adelaide City Council reconciliation pages:  

Warriparinga:

Kaurna Plains School:  

DECD:

ACARA Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages:  


Useful National and International Websites on Language Revival:

Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD):

Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS):  

Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project:

Hebrew Academy:  

Prof. Zuckermann’s website:  

Manx Heritage Foundation:  

Ynsee Gaelg:  
Cowag Manx Gaelic Blog:  

Twitter in Manx:  

Manx Gaelic Revival Youtube video  

First Voices web pages (British Columbia) at:  

Kualono, University of Hawai’i webpages at:  

M脛聛ori Language Commission pages at:  

Indigenous Languages Research and Development Center, Taipei, Taiwan:

Day 1: 13 Jan.
Introduction: (housekeeping; assessment scheme etc)

Kaurna Panel: interview with Kaurna people about their engagement with Kaurna language

Language Loss; Reclaiming Languages: the national and international scene

Reclaiming Language, Reclaiming Culture: Reclaiming/Maintaining/ Strengthening IdentityText: Chapter 1-2

Gara (1998)

Amery & Gale (2008)

We Still Live Here (Wampanoag DVD)

Text (Amery, 2016)


Day 2: 14 Jan.

Sources and their reliability:
Philology & comparative linguistics.
Recovering the Kaurna sound system.
Comparisons with other ‘sleeping’ languages

Readings, Vol I

Text: Chs 5, 6 (pp.75-122)

Amery (1996; 1998; 2006)


Day 3: 15 Jan. Kaurna Vocabulary and Lexical Semantics

Kaurna place names; language and environment

 Lexicon and semantics:

 Lexical expansion: Comparisons with Hebrew, Maori and Hawai’ian.

 Kaurna metalanguage:

http://www.kaurnaplacenames.com

Simpson & Hercus (2002)

Amery (2002)

Amery & Williams (2002)

Schultz, Chester (2012 onwards) /kwp/placenames/research-publ/

Amery & Buckskin (2013)

Text: Chapter 7

Amery (2013)

Kaurna Dictionary (DRAFT VERSION)

Text: Chapter 7 (pp.138-145)

Amery (1993)


Day4: 20 Jan. Reclaiming grammar
Relationships between Kaurna grammar and the grammars of other Australian languages

T&S (1840: G4-G24; 65-72)
TMs (1858)
Text: Chapter 6 (pp.106-109; 146-154)
Kaurna Learner's Guide
Kaurna For Smarties

Amery (2013) Authenticity & errors http://hiphilangsci.net/2013/08/28/authenticity-and-the-correction-of-errors-in-the-context-of-language-reclamation


Day5: 21 Jan. Kaurna Texts
What historical texts have been recorded?
Creating New Texts
Growing a Kaurna Literature
Songwriting
Translation

Text: Chapter 6 (pp.110-123; 166-168)



Day 6: 22 Jan. Kaurna Language Revival

1. Kaurna in the Public domain.


Text: Chapter 8

Amery & Rigney (2006)

Amery (2010); Amery (2012)




2. Language revival: Private and in-group domains
Hinton (1994)

Hinton (2001)

Leonard (2008)

http://www.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/family language planning

3. The role of schools and the education sector:

Training: Kaurna Cert II and Cert III TAFE and Tauondi courses

Text: Chapter 7

Hinton (2002); Amery (1996)

Amery (2002)

Mühlhäusler et al (2004)

Walsh (2003)

Amery & Buckskin (2012)

Gale & Amery (2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2012d, 2013)


Day 7: 27 Jan.

EXCURSION: Piltawodli and Warriparinga


Text: Chapters 1, 4

Gara (1998); Foster (1990); Harris (1999)

Day 8: 28 Jan.  Re-establishing Intergenerational Transmission:

How to become a fluent Kaurna speaker

Resource production:

New Media:

Buckskin (DVD))

Text: Formulaic method

Wadu Matyidi (Adny. Animation)

http://bit.ly/kaurna
http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2008/07/mobile_phone_dictionaries.html


Day 9: 29 Jan.
 
Language Planning; Future Prospects

KWP/KWKText:Chapters 3, 9, 10, 11

Amery (2001)

Amery & Rigney (2007)

Amery (2013)

Amery & Buckskin (2013)

Participation in the excursion to Pirltawardli and Warriparinga is compulsory.

 

TASK	TASK TYPE	WEIGHTING	DUE DATE	LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Practical Task: Analysis of Kaurna Wordlist in Chittleborough (1906)	Formative	25%	midnight Mon. 18 Jan. 2021	1, 2, 3, 6, 7
Grammar Practical	Formative	20%	Mon. 1st Feb. 2021	1, 2, 3, 6, 7
Take Home Exam	Summative	25%	Fri. 5th Feb. 2021	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Essay (2,000 words)	Summative	30%	Fri. 15 Feb. 2021	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11

ASSIGNMENT 1: PRACTICAL TASK - ANALYSIS OF CHITTLBOROUGH'S (1906) KAURNA WORDLIST (DUE DATE: Midnight, Monday, 18th January 2021)

Analyse the Kaurna wordlist compiled by J. Chittleborough and published in his memoirs of life in early Adelaide in an article titled ‘Primitive Adelaide: Recollections and Impressions’ in The Observer 29 December 1906: 37. [Wordlist to be supplied]

This wordlist only came to light recently and is not included in your textbook (Amery, 2000). Chittleborough had learnt some Kaurna in his childhood.

Your task is to analyse Chittleborough’s wordlist and assess its quality. You should use Amery’s (1996) and (1998) analyses of Robinson’s 1837 and Gaimard’s 1826 Kaurna wordlists as a guide.
First create a chart listing Chittleborough’s wordlist in one column alongside of their Nukunu counterparts in a second column, T&S and TMs counterparts in a third column and counterparts from other Kaurna sources in a fourth column. Respell the word in Kaurna Revised Spelling in Column 4 and leave a fifth column for notes.

I have started the chart for you [to be supplied]:

On the basis of the chart you have created, address the following questions:
1. How did Chittleborough represent the sounds of Kaurna?
a. What generalisations can you make about Chittleborough’s spellings?
b. Does he represent the sounds of Kaurna consistently?
c. What Kaurna sounds does he fail to transcribe?

2. How do you account for the discrepancy in meaning between Chittleborough’s and T&S’s wordlists?

3. Can you suggest a source for the words which do not have counterparts in T&S or Hercus (1992)?
4. What typographical errors are evident in Chittleborough’s wordlist?
5. Comment on the importance and value of Chittleborough’s wordlist.

ASSIGNMENT 2: GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS (DUE DATE: Mon. 1st February 2021)

The following sentences and their translations are taken directly from Teichelmann & Schürmann (1840) or Teichelmann (1857).



PART A

Analyse these three utterances [to be supplied] using Teichelmann & Schürmann's (1840) grammar and vocabulary, the wordlist
compiled in Amery (2017) Warra Kaurna Yalaka and Notes on Revised Spelling adopted in 2010.



a) Re-transcribe into the Revised Spelling (RS) system adopted in 2010.

b) Provide a morpheme-by-morpheme interlinear gloss as in the example provided.

c) Discuss/explain the context in which these sentences might have been uttered. Be sure to consider who the participants might have been and how many there were.

d) Where appropriate, provide a more natural translation in today's English.



Example:

Data: Ngai padlo ningka palta, ngaityo tokutyurlo.
He attempted to throw at me, my child.



Analysis

a) RS: Ngai padlu ningka parlta, ngaityu tukutyurlu.

Notes: Only a few minor changes in spelling are required in this particular sentence.

Evidence from Adnyamathanha (varlta- ‘hit’) suggests that the lt sequence in palta is retroflexed.

Replace all instances of o in this sentence with u. T&S themselves spelt tukutya ‘small’ as tukkutya (with a u instead of o) in their vocabulary. When suffixes are added to ngaityu, as in ngaityurna ‘mine’ they also used a u instead of o.



b) Ngai padlu      ningka                           parlta,             ngaityu tukuty-urlu.
     me    he+ERG nearly/almost/threatening threw (perfect) my         little/child-ERG

In adding the Ergative or Agentive suffix -rlo to tokutya (spelt tukkutya in the vocabulary), the final vowel a has been replaced by u. This-rlo suffix tells us that it was the child who did the throwing. Padlo 'he' refers tongaityo tokutyurlo 'my child'. They bear the
same case marking.



c) This utterance might be describing an event where the speaker's child tried to throw something at him, narrowly missing him.



d) A more natural translation in today's English might be:

'My child nearly hit me' (by throwing something at me)

OR 'My child threw (something) at me, but missed.



Now analyse these sentences in the same way (details TBA):




PART B

Using the sentences you analysed above, construct new Kaurna sentences for:

(details TBA)


Example:

Model sentence:

Ngai padlu ningka parlta, ngaityu tukutyurlu. 'My child nearly hit me' (by throwing something at me)



How would you say ‘You nearly burnt her, my friend’?

This sentence has exactly the same structure as the model sentence above. So it is a simple matter of substitution
of the elements which change as follows:



Pa nintu     ningka ngadli, ngaityu niipu-rlu.
her you+ERG nearly   burnt     my        friend-ERG



Note that the form of the Ergative suffix used on niipu ‘friend’ is slightly different to that used on tukutya ‘small’. The two forms, -urlu and –rlu are allomorphs. They mean exactly the same thing.



(NB: Teichelmann & Schürmann's English translation may not always be 100% accurate. Spellings used here may
vary slightly from those appearing in the vocabulary. The initial ng is sometimes omitted as inai (= ngai )).






ASSIGNMENT 3: ESSAY (DUE DATE: Monday, 15th February 2021). Length 2,000 words



Write an essay on one of the following topics:

1.  “Kaurna is as dead as Hittite. The materials we have are scanty. Trying to talk Kaurna consists of taking words from Teichelmann and Schurmann and trying to put them together to make sentences. We don’t know the pronunciation. We
can’t be sure of what word order was, of how clauses were linked. The vocabulary available is small. In our opinion, the attempt to ‘resurrect’ Kaurna (or any other dead language) is simply a political exercise” (Letter From Prof. R.M.W. Dixon, Head of Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University to Rob Amery, 1 May 2001)

Write a response to Dixon in the light of what you have learnt about Kaurna, and other ‘sleeping languages’ and efforts to reclaim and revive them.

2. Compare and contrast the Kaurna language movement with another language revival movement of your choice.

3. Kaurna has emerged as an auxiliary language for Kaurna people. What functions does it serve within Kaurna society and within the lives of Kaurna individuals?

4. How can Kaurna people maximise exposure to the Kaurna language in the absence of native speakers? What methods have they used?

5. For most of the 20th Century Kaurna language was unheard of and ignored. Explain how the public at large has engaged with Kaurna language. What motivates the general public to engage with the Kaurna language?

6. What does authenticity mean in the context of the Kaurna language? How do we know whether a Kaurna word, phrase, sentence or text is authentic or not? What criteria should be used to judge?

7. Why learn Kaurna? How do the aims and objectives of a Kaurna teaching program differ to that of a Japanese, French or German etc. program?

8. More than 80% of South Australia’s population live in Kaurna country. Many schools across the Adelaide metropolitan area wish to offer a Kaurna language program, but few actually do. What are the main impediments? What is being done to address the need?

9. Topic of your own choice, subject to prior negotiation and approval by the CourseCoordinator.

Note: This assignment is designed to assess all Course Objectives



Layout Requirements:
Standard essay format including introduction and conclusion. Be sure to provide a bibliography of all sources used, including publisher and place of publication. In-text references, eg O’Brien (1990: 105) should include page numbers for all quotations and specific information such as facts and figures (ie anything that another reader might want to find without having to read the entire book or article).

This assignment will be assessed on the basis of the student’s ability to:

· Identify the key issues underpinning the topic of choice

· Use key sources (texts and relevant readings provided)

· Draw on a range of sources beyond those provided

· Take into account a range of perspectives

· Analyse and discuss issues in depth

· Reflect critically

· Present findings coherently

· Use appropriate format and present findings succinctly and concisely

In certain cases (eg misunderstanding the topic), students may be re-invited to resubmit.




ASSIGNMENT 4: TAKE-HOME EXAM (Due Friday 5th February 2021)

The Take-Home Exam will consist of a series of short discussion questions and practical tasks relating to various aspects of the entire course. You should be able to easily finish this task within a day or two, though you will be given a week in consideration of work and family commitments you might have. (you can view two previous papers in MyUni under Assignments)