link | 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ilq/2019/05/13/2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages-word-of-the-week-week-eighteen/

As part of State Library’s commitment to the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, we will be promoting a ‘word of the week’ from one of the 125+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and dialects from across Queensland.
State Library’s ‘word of the week’ for Week Eighteen is yakka [pronounced yak-kah], from the Yugarabul language of Boonah and Ipswich. It is derived from ‘yaga’ meaning work / to work and is also recorded in the Yugara language of Brisbane.
Category: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
Thematic area: Language learning and teaching
Call topics: Intergenerational transmission
Major objective: Thematic areas: Promotion
Area of intervention: Growth and development through elaboration of new knowledge