This video has been contributed to the ABC Splash Marrin Gamu video competition by Melisa Kennedy​ from Kerry Street Community School, WA
Kerry Street Kids sing the Body Song in Nyoongar language.
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/competition/2277558/indigenous-language-song-competition/2361375

The Body Song in Nyoongar

Among the many significant places in Albany, on Western Australia’s rugged south coast, lies Binalup. Noongar man Mark Colbung takes us back to a time when historic events took place as the white sand glowed in the morning light. 

Cormo

Gaja Kerry Charlton

Rosemary Boombi

Stage 1 children singing Dhaga Wambuwuny

By: Wirradjuri Language Choir
Parkes Public School, NSW

Dhaga Wambuwuny

Children can learn to count from 1 to 10 in Kaurna language with a little help from some starfish.

Kaurna for Kids - Numbers

Little Yarns

The Kaurna Place Names project aims to identify and map places with Kaurna names and to encourage the use and increase knowledge of these names. It begins with names in southern Kaurna country.

Kaurna Placenames

Beryl Carmichael is the last of her family to sing the Ngiyampaa birth song.

The Wild Turkey of Ngiyampaa

Learn the original and true meaning of some Woiwurrung words.

Word Up: Mandy Nicholson

Arrernte is a family of languages from central Australia.

Word Up: Arrernte

Dhunghutti man Ray Kelly Snr is passionate about studying Goori languages in the space where community knowledge and academia cross over.

Word Up: Ray Kelly Snr

Troy Wyles Whelan ABC ID 

Che Kelly in Kununarra is our language legend this month. He's learning and teaching Mirriwong at his local language centre Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring  Last week, Che told you a little about his nan and shared the Miriwoong word that means ‘to look around’.  Now he’s sharing a different Miriwoong word: one that’ll lift your eyes to the skies.

Word Up: Che Kelly

Agnes Mark

By: B4 Winthrop Primary School, WA

B4 students from Winthrop Primary School sing the Body Parts Song in the local Noongar Language

Body Parts Song in the Noongar Language

Let teenage Parnkalla (Barngarla) boys Kaiden and Darnell Richards, take you on a journey to a place important to their family.

Yalanhi

Language is a really important cultural foundation. I think it is really important that our language is spoken. It makes me proud. We have one of the oldest living cultures in the world and lit is important to keep our language going.

Shonae Hobson

Roy McDonnell

Harold Ludwick

Aunty Brenda’s music calls the Spirit of Spring and kids are invited to join in and whisper the Dhurga word "Gambambara". When Gambambara arrives it’s the season of renewal and birth! Join Kamil for a walk as the bush comes alive, clap along with traditional Aboriginal instruments and learn about a special piano technique.

Music for The Dreaming: Gambambara

Raymond Smith NAIDOC ID 2017 

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Ankamuthi Traditional Owners explain the social and cultural significance of Possession Island for their clan group and discuss the ways in which every member of the clan had a role to play in gathering various foods. 

In collaboration with the National Museum of Australia’s exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s voyage to Australia, this collection focuses on the history and culture of Indigenous communities along Australia’s east coast, from the locations Cook wrote about in his journals from that fateful voyage. 

The National Museum of Australia’s exhibition, Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians, which is now open. The online exhibition can be viewed here https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage

Thank you to
Aunty Sandra Woosup Sebasio
Charles Woosup
for sharing their time and knowledge

Special thanks to
Dave Hartwell
Amanda Ewart

Editor
Peter O’Donoghue

Produced by
Dwayne Wyles
Carmen Pratap

Filmed on Ankamuthi country

Produced by the ABC. Financed with the assistance of the National Museum of Australia.

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Thunada

My language is Gunggari from South West Queensland.  I like to think that I have taken a role in all indigenous issues, not only language. When I was young, Aboriginal people, and girls in particular, were thought of as nothing. You had to do the best you could with what you had. We were brought up to believe that people were as good as we were but no better. I think it was the attitude way back then that changed things for me. All my adult life I have been involved in Aboriginal issues; education, health and language. Particularly for women and girls.

Ethel Munn

The Nana Glen Public school, years K-6 singing Yaam Nyaya Buurrgi in Gumbaynggir language.

Nana Glen Public School

palawa kani is the traditional language of Tasmania.

Word Up: Tessa Atto

We meet a teacher who shares some Guugu Yimithirr - the Aboriginal language that gives us the word kangaroo.

Word Up: Lillian Bowen

Aunty Ruth James, Shaniah Thomason, Uncle Robert Mitchell, Deborah Sandy - Yugara-Yugarapul

Ruth James, Shaniah Thomason, Robert Mitchell, Deborah Sandy

Bilawara Lee hopes that one day Larrakia will be spoken fluently on the streets of Darwin.

Word Up: Bilawara Lee

Susan Kenedy 

The Butchulla songman is sharing three of his favourite words — including the language name for Fraser Island.

Word Up: Fred Leone

This is our Kindergarten class singing Heads, shoulders, knees and toes in the Gathang language of the Birpai Nation.

By: St. Joseph's School, Laurieton, NSW

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes by St Joseph's School

'Jarrampa' is the Walmajarri word for 'cherrabun', which is a fresh water prawn. Jesse Moora talks about how she catches the jarranpa.

Walmajarri words: jarrampa

Sheree Blackley

Leah Umbagai

Combine a community, a list of Bundjalung words, a blackboard, an interview and a camera, and you get this story of language lost and found

Sharing Bundjalung Mother Tongue

Des Crump

Kado Muir learnt modern etiquette from his tribal nomad mother in the bush, and Paul Paton is relearning a lost language.

Table manners in the bush and waking a sleeping language

Glenda Nalder ABC ID 

Nyangumarta country goes from the central Great Sandy Desert to Eighty Mile Beach.

Word Up: Yarlalu Thomas

What Central and Western Arrernte words do you know from around Central Australia?

Vianca shares Arrernte words with us

Jessie Bartlett ABC ID

Sonny Graham

Kerry Charlton National NAIDOC ID 2018

Steven Coghill ABC ID 

Emma Richards

A Town Like Mparntwe

Colin Jones ABC ID

For Uncle Vic Chapman, Yuwaalaraay language is infused with memory.

Word Up: Uncle Vic Chapman

Bryon Powell takes us on another tour across Wadawurrung country. A young Indigo learns how to look for food like her ancestors at Kuaka-dorla, now known as Anglesea on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. A top Bongerimennin, now known as Flagstaff Hill lookout, Bryon shares an important story about how the land was created by two strong warriors from the dreaming. Borombeet is now known as Lake Burrumbeet, just out of Ballaarat. In the old people’s time itwas a place of significance because it was a constant source of water,rich in resources such as food and medicine. Now it is a large recreational area for boating, fishing and camping. Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains,creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.

Kuaka-dorla

Leanne Pope

IHHP - Yolngu Style

Meet Jane Edwards in Derby in the west Kimberly. She’s our language legend this month.  Today, Jane shares a Nyigina word that can describe someone’s daughter.   It’s also the word for a great-grandmother – who becomes a daughter to her great-grandchildren.

Word Up: Jane Edwards

The thrombolites in Lake Clifton in WA are thought to be one of the first life forms on earth. George and Frank share how for the Noongar people, the thrombolites hold a significant place in their Dreaming stories and explain how the local waterways were created.

Woggaal Noorook

Wuntama

In central Australia there are five regional dialects of Arrernte. Joel Liddle speaks Ikngerripenhe or Eastern Arrernte - his grandmother's language.

Word Up: Joel Liddle

Among the many significant places in Albany, on Western Australia’s rugged south coast, lies Binalup. Noongar man Mark Colbung takes us back to a time when historic events took place as the white sand glowed in the morning light.

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Binalup

Natalie Jin-gurala Wilson ABC ID 

Edie Ulrich NAIDOC ID 2017

A fun way for you, your children or grandchildren to learn a bit of Bundjalung, the mother tongue language of the NSW North Coast.

Head shoulders knees and toes

Angelina Joshua works at the Ngukurr Language Centre

Angelina Joshua - Marra Young Champion

Cygnet Repu - Kala lagaw Ya - Mabuyag dialect -

Cygnet Repu

Bobbinawarra is Bangerang for pelican, and you are almost guaranteed to see one in the lakes, ponds and rivers that surround this tiny locale. Bangerang elder uncle Freddie Dowling tells how inland pelicans came to be.

Bobbinawarra

Ken Smith

Alice Mitchell is a Nyamal elder who speaks English, Nyamal and Nyangamurta fluently.

Alice Mitchell remembers Nyamal

Desmond Taylor

The word for Darwin Peninsular is Garramalal. The name for the Larrakia / Larrakia People is Gulumerrdjin. 

Garramalal

Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River

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When the Sydney Water Board built a new seawall at Hill 60 sewerage works they asked artists, Lorraine Brown and Narelle Thomas from the Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation to design a mural. 

The mural stretches over 21-meters and consists of three panels that depict Aboriginal history of the area including the dreaming story of the Five Islands Reserve. 

Video produced by Sarah Moss of ABC Illawarra.

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Geera

Michael Hill

Kaitlyn Lodewikus is a young Ghangulu & Yiman woman from Mount Morgan in Central Queensland. Her journey into Language began August 2016 when her Uncle invited her to attend a Yiman Language Recovery workshop in Bundaberg. From this workshop she discovered a passion for Language. Inconsequently, she submitted an application and within the next month had moved to Bundaberg and was working at the Language Centre. Within the position as a Language Worker,her main roles are to organise Language Reference Group Meetings around Central Queensland and create Language Learning Resources. She has recently started teaching Language at Kindergartens within Bundaberg and ran Language Lessons at schools around Central Queensland for their NAIDOC Celebrations. Before attending the Language Workshop in 2016 she knew very little Language and now she knows parts of 11 languages.Kaitlyn made this video to share her language journey at Puliima, the 2017 Indigenous Languages and Technology forum in Cairns.

Kaitlyn Lodewikus - Ghangulu & Yiman Young Champion 2017

Rona Glynn-McDonald shares a Kaytetye phrase that was important to her while she was away at boarding school.

Word Up: Rona Glynn-McDonald

Che Kelly is our language legend this month.  He's learning and teaching Miriwoong at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring — the local language centre in Kununurra.  Last week, Che asked you to look up to the skies. This week, he wants you to look straight down at your feet.

Fay Stuart Muir

Dylan Collard

Eidsvold  State School students sing in Wakka Wakka

Today in lutruwita (Tasmania) we learn all about palawa takariliya (family) with our friend Tessa.

Little Yarns: Family in palawa kani

Gomeroi man Gavi Duncan explains the significance of Bulgandry, a sacred Indigenous art site. Situated in the Brisbane Water National Park, Bulgandry is home to rock carvings depicting the story of Baiyami, the creator.

Bungary

There are only three fluent speakers of the Yinggarda language.

Word Up: Kath Ryan

Did you know the local Aboriginal language in Port Macquarie is Gathang? Here’s how to name a few of our local animals and trees in the language of the local Birpai people.

Gulanganggubaga

I stepped up for my mum and dad. They were my teachers, my parents, and they have both passed away. I feel now that I am in my mother's shoes and I want to follow my father's footsteps. So as a mentor now, I am passing on the knowledge to my children and grandchildren; to the next generation.

Jennifer Creek

A young boy travels on an in initiation journey.

Wurdi Youang

Darnell Richards

The Wajarri language is now on an app which contains almost 2000 entries from the Wajarri language dictionary.

Wajarri wangga bagardi gula! Wajarri in your pocket

Students signing in Gurang language

By: Goora Gan Steiner School, QLD

Goora Gan

Victor Harbor High School

I see many benefits for young ones knowing their language because languages gives you identity. If you know your language you know your place in your society because your kinship language puts you into society. You know how to communicate with members of your family and community.  It is important that people know where they fit and only language can tell you that.

Alberta Hornsby

By: Maitland Lutheran School, SA

Year 4 at Maitland Lutheran School, SA

Marrin Gamu in Narungga Language (Yorke Peninsula, South Australia)

Head to Yankunytjatjara Country to catch up with Karina Lester and her daughter Larissa.  There they’ll share the Yankunytjatjara name for a lovely bird: the magpie. 

Word Up: Karina Lester & Larissa

Len Waters ABC ID

I get goose bumps sometimes when I hear language spoken. My heart beats fast and I feel really good, and sometimes I feel the tears falling from my eyes. It’s so rare these days to hear children speaking their language. When they do it’s joyful, it’s a joyful sound and I want to hear it more often. I want it to become natural again to hear language. I want to be able to take it for granted that, yes, someone’s speaking the language, instead of thinking, ‘Oh wow! Someone’s speaking the language’, because that’s where we are at the moment.

Leonora Adidi

There are five dialects in the Anaiwan language. One of them is Ambeyan.

Word Up: Callum Clayton-Dixon

The story of a woman with the legs of an emu that would entice young men to her camp.

Kareet Bareet

For Word Up, Yankunytjatjara speakers Karina Lester and her daughter Larissa take you back to north west of South Australia to share the word for dog — tjutju.