Cape York languages

[Daryn McKenny]

Hi Leonora,

Maybe try contacting the North Queensland Regional Languages Centre based in Cairns on 07-4053 4698, they supposedly work with the 45 languages in the North Queensland and should have some good contacts.

Regards
 
Daryn 
 
Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association Inc.

Read our Indigenous Language BLOG at http://www.arwarbukarl.net.au/blog/
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leonora Adidi [mailto:leonora.adidi at batchelor.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 7:37 PM
To: Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity at unimelb.edu.au
Subject: Cape York languages
Importance: High

FYI , please help with this request. 

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From: Multimedia Languages & Marketing [mailto:multimedia at 2m.com.au]
Sent: Thu 28-Feb-08 4:52 PM
To: Leonora Adidi
Subject: Cape York languages



 

Dear Leonora

 

Please forward to your network. Thank you!

 

 

Dear Colleagues

 

I am looking for colleagues who can translate fact sheets about Child Safety (for the Qld Dep of Child Safety) into Cape York Indigenous languages.

If you are able to translate into a Cape York language or if you know someone who can, please contact me. If you can't translate but you can recommend which language you think are important, please do send me your opinion (i.e. language recommendation).

 

Translation of English information into Indigenous languages is very important and unfortunately all too often neglected as information is mostly only translated into Asian, European and African languages.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards

 

Tea C. Dietterich

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Dear RNLD,

As part of my work on Tai languages in Northeast India, I am
transcribing and translating manuscripts written from the 17th century
up to present day. These MSS are in various scripts, which are known as
Tai, or Lik Tai and also Ahom. Neither are at present Unicode encoded,
though that process is underway, very slowly.

I made fonts for these scripts back in the 1990s, using Fontographer,
and placing the characters on ASCI spaces. Now I need to get some new
glyphs made and am wondering if anybody knows what the best up-to-date
font making program is. I'd also appreciate hearing from anybody who has
dealings with Unicode issues.

Stephen Morey
RCLT
s.morey at latrobe.edu.au