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http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ilq/2019/04/09/2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages-word-of-the-week-week-fifteen/

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  • 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.
    Week 15’s word is thuwathu [pronounced thoo-wah-thoo], from the Lardil language of Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria – it means ‘Rainbow Serpent’ a creation ancestor found in many language groups across Australia. Dick Roughsey published “The Rainbow Serpent” story in 1975 using Goorialla as another name that refers to the Rainbow Serpent.

  • Category: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
  • Thematic area: Promotion
  • Call topics: Intergenerational transmission
  • Major objective: Thematic areas: Promotion
  • Area of intervention: Growth and development through elaboration of new knowledge
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