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

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ilq/2019/09/30/2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages-word-of-the-week-week-forty/

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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.
    To coincide with World Smile Day on 4 October, this week’s word is yimirr-yimirr [pronounced yim-eerr-yim-eerr with rolled ‘r’] from the Warrungu language of North Queensland. It means ‘being happy’!

  • 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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