Golpa013

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Golpa013

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0011-C2B3-1

Description: JKL (linguist) took this photo from the plane when returning to Galiwin'ku (from a day trip). It shows the road (running towards the channel) that connects Galawarra (Golpa homeland) with Galiwin'ku. The channel separates Elcho Island from the Australian mainland.

Date created: 2011

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Australia

Region: Galawarra, 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).