HNG001

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HNG001

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0011-C29D-8

Description: HNG (Golpa speaker) introduces herself in Golpa. She also uses a number of Djambarrpuyngu words.

Date created: 2011-07-15

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Australia

Region: Batchelor College, Batchelor, NT

Address: Galiwin'ku, Elcho Island, NT

Project

ID: SG0057

Name: 0139-SG0057

Description: The aim of the project is to produce an annotated and illustrated Golpa story book about the Golpa people, their land and culture. Golpa is a severely endangered YolNGu language (Yirritja moiety) spoken on Elcho Island, Northern Territory, Australia. Most stories in the book are part of a hugh collection of audio recordings made back in the 1960s. The narrator of these texts is the father of today's Golpa speakers/consultants. Until this project these texts have never been processed. There are only very few Golpa left who still speak and/or understand the language to a considerable extend. The processing of these recordings will reveal and document linguistic and cultural knowledge about a dying Australian indigenous group and make it accessible to the community as well as to researchers.This project is the first attempt to document and describe the Golpa language (and culture).

Content

Genre: Narration

Languages

Language

Name: Golpa

Language

Name: Djambarrpuyŋu

Description: DjambarrpuyNGu is a Dhuwal variety. DjambarrpuyNGu is used as lingua franca and understood by most YolNGu in North East Arnhem Land. Besides Gälpu DjambarrpuyNGu is used most often by Garrutju. DjambarrpuyNGu and English are the two means of instruction at the local bilingual school (Shepherdson College) since the 1970s.