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link | State Library of Queensland “Word of the Week” Week Thirty-Four.

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ilq/2019/08/20/2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages-word-of-the-week-week-thirty-four/

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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 Book Week 2019, Week 34’s word is biibabiiba [pronounced bee-bah bee-bah], from the Yuwaalaraay language of South-West Queensland and North-West NSW. It is new word derived from Aboriginal English meaning ‘book’. Biiba refers to ‘paper’; biibabiiba signifies ‘many papers’ and is used for ‘book’ as well as ‘newspaper’.

  • 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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