| Yira Boornak Nyininy Contributor(s): Scott, Kim (Author), Brown, Hazel (Author), Winmar, Roma (Author) |
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ISBN: 1742585124 ISBN-13: 9781742585123 Publisher: University of Western Australia Press OUR PRICE: $24.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages - Art | Folk & Outsider Art - Art | Australian & Oceanian |
| Dewey: 398.208 |
| Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project |
| Physical Information: 36 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Noongar maam, yok, moyer nyinelangayny bardlanginy wadjela kookondjari-ang. / A woman, and a man, and his nephew were shepherding sheep. Presented bilingually in English and Aboriginal Noongar language text, Yira Boornak Nyininy is an Indigenous Australian story about forgiveness and friendship. Left stranded in a tree by his wife, a Noongar man has to rely on his Wadjela friend to help him back down. *** Yira Boornak Nyininy came from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the Western Australian south coast - the Noongar people. Inspired by a story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves around 1931, Yira Boornak Nyininy has been workshopped in a series of community meetings as a part of the "Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project" to revitalize an endangered language. This story is written in old Noongar, along with a literal English translation, as well as English prose styled by Kim Scott. |