link | State Library of Queensland “Word of the Week” Week Forty-One.

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ilq/2019/10/08/2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages-word-of-the-week-week-forty-one/

  • 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.
    This week’s word of the week is ndhan [pronounced n-darn] which is from the Linngithigh language of Cape York meaning ‘messmate bark’. Linngithigh is also known as Lenigniti, Winduwinda, Winda Winda, Adetingiti, Andyinit, etc. The term Winda Winda refers to a creek in the language area which extends between the Archer and Mission Rivers on Western Cape York.

  • Category: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
  • Thematic area: Promotion
  • Call topics: Intergenerational transmission
  • Major objective: Thematic areas: Promotion
  • Area of intervention: Increasing understanding, reconciliation and international cooperation
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