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[phil cash cash]

ta'c halaXpa (good day) Margaret,
Thank you for the news from Katherine NT.  I got to travel in your country
last Sept 2007 for 4 days, mostly in Kakadu to see the sites.  We had such a
great time we didn't make it down to Ngukurr Language Centre as we had 
hoped. 
Here is Tucson, AZ USA it is getting very warm and warmer and hot into summer
now.
Happy centenary 2008 to Ngukurr Language Centre!!
Phil
UofA Tucson

Quoting Ngukurr Language Centre :

> Out here we are beginning to enjoy some cooler weather, at least at
> night and when the sky is clear.  Also good news.
>
> People like myself are Caucasian, or munanga, as we are called here.
> but because of past language work I am called the Alawa olgomen (Alawa
> old woman, olgomen being a title of respect.  Forty years ago I was the
> Alawa girl.  People are trying to revitalise/keep going/sensitise
> people to at least five languages represented here in descendants of
> those who once spoke them (some still do - a very little).  The Ngukurr
> community celebrates its centenary in August 2008: it was a church
> mission providing a safe haven for people who others were trying to
> wipe out.  The language of everyday communication is Kriol, an
> English-lexified creole which reflects patterns of the indigenous
> language structure.  In Kriol there are also a number of local language
> words, and even a couple from the old Sydney language across the
> continent.
>
> Murru (that'll do, OK from Alawa)
> Margaret Sharpe
> Ngukurr Language Centre
> CMB 6
> via Katherine  NT  0852
> Ph/Fax: 08 8975 4362, Mob. 0428 711 123
> Email: margaret.sharpe at kathlangcentre.org.au

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