Words for home

[Christina Ringel]

Dear Harley Dunolly-Lee,

good luck with your efforts! Sounds great!
The Miriwoong people often use a suffix that means 'used for' (for
example chair is /looloo-gerring/ 'sit-for'). Do you have one of those
in Dja Dja Wurrung?
They also have a suffix meaning 'similar to', for example they name
introduced fruit like this: plum is bush.melon-like.

All the best from Germany!
Christina

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> Hi Harley,
>
> Your project sounds like a great way to revive your language, and I
> wish you every success! You might find this guide to filling gaps in
> the vocabulary of Australian languages useful.
>
> http://www.indigoz.com.au/language/gaps.html
>  If you haven’t already, I’d also suggest you make contact with Jack
> Buckskin in Adelaide who has been trying to raise his children as
> Kaurna speakers.
>
> https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/resources/videos/jackbuckskin.html
> <https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/resources/videos/jackbuckskin.html>
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>> On 21 Jun 2020, at 7:59 am, Harley Dunolly-Lee
>> <harley_lee123 at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Hello wurrung balak (language peoples)
>>
>> I am working on words for home in Dja Dja Wurrung, my language. Me
>> and a couple of other Dja Dja Wurrung speakers are gonna put labels
>> around the house. I am currently organizing a project that requires
>> me and another Dja Dja Wurrung person to only speak language or code
>> switch. This is drawn from elements of the master-apprentice program
>> but tweaked for our current situation (no fluent speakers).
>>
>> My older sister had a baby as well, so the main reason is to speak it
>> as much as we can around baby.
>>
>> I have done the following through basic semantic extension - which a
>> community member suggest I do instead of complex morphology. We gotta
>> work with a first stage. This way we are teaching the community about
>> country.
>>
>> Woyimba - heat (from fire) - oven
>> Munmut - cold - fridge
>> Mumwil - couch - (mum 'bum', -wil 'having')
>> Mumbil - chair - (mum 'bum', -pil 'having')
>> Gapang - ice, frost - freezer, esky
>>
>> These are subjected to change and variation, as one community member
>> wants to use the word for ground oven or hot, heat (weather).
>>
>> I am wanting to know what have other communities (under awakening or
>> fluently spoken) have done in this situation just to get an idea to
>> help with the elaboration and direction.
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Christina Ringel

Ph.D. Candidate
Applied English Linguistics
English Department I
University of Cologne

Subject Librarian
TU Dortmund

Homepage:
http://iaawiki.tu-dortmund.de/index.php?title=Christina_Ringel
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https://www.ub.tu-dortmund.de/Orgaplan/fwiso.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7895-3456

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