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This document constitutes a treatise on the reconstruction of the grammar of the language known as Awabakal. In most places, it is like any descriptive grammar developed for a language, laying out the detectable patterns of phonology, morphology and syntax.
The project to recover the language now known as Awabakal is based almost entirely on the admirable philological work carried out by the missionary the Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld.
Awabakal is the language of the Aboriginal people from Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Lower Hunter region of NSW in Australia. As Lenny take his walk and collects insects, we learn some of the words that relate to the bush, to the landscape and the little creatures that would be found there.
The Awabakal Dictionary - Community Edition (ADCE) comprises of two dictionaries: The Illustrated Awabakal Dictionary (IAD) and The Awabakal English to Awabakal Dictionary (AEAD).
This is a fun way for children to begin to learn the Awabakal Language as they colour in the pictures.
The Wildlife Resource Book is a great introduction to the Awabakal Language. Have fun learning all the Awabakal names of the different animals.
This volume is an introductory work designed more to give you a "taste" for the language, than to bring you up to any kind of "testable" standard.
Palii Ngarabangaliingeyn Awabakalkoba. This publication is intended to be a "plain english" Grammar for the traditional language (or major dialect) spoken by the Aboriginal people who inhabited the Lower Hunter Valley and the districts occupying and surrounding what is now Lake Macquarie.
Now you can sing the Australian National Anthem that we all love so much in one of the first languages of this country.
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