Territory Stories

Marru arra mutika

Details:

Title

Marru arra mutika

Other title

Buy me a truck

Illustrator

Ashwell, Marsha

Collection

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project; PublicationNT; E-Books

Date

1994

Location

Maningrida

Provenance

This material was collected by the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project between 2013 and 2021. The project was led by Charles Darwin University in partnership with the Australian National University and the Northern Territory Government and funded in part by the Australian Research Council.; Efforts have been made to identify and contact the person or people responsible for creating these materials to request permission to include them in this archive. If you have any concerns about materials being made public on this site, please contact us and we will remove the item from display until any concerns have been addressed.

Notes

Story by the children of Gamardi, with help from Mr Johnny Watjpurrali.

Language

English; Djinang; Djinba language N94.1

Subject

Narrative; LAAL; Djinang; Bilingual education resources; Djinang people N94.1; Djinang language N94.1; Djinang dialects; Yolngu; Ritharngu; Daii; Diakui; Djinba; Jandjinung; Yandijinang; Yandjinung; Jinang; Jandji:nangc; Jandjinang; Jand jinung; Yandjinning; Djinnang; Milingimbi; Millingimbi; Wulllakki; Ullaki; Wulagi; Balmbi; Balmawi; Barlmawi; Manjarngi; Manyarrngi; Mun narngo; Manarrngu

Publisher name

Maningrida Literature Production Centre

Place of publication

Maningrida

File type

application/pdf

Other identifier

cdu:61087; LAAL_ID:ma0384

ISBN

867833378

Use

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Copyright owner

Maningrida Literature Production Centre

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/871539 [LANT : LAAL - Marru arra mutika -revised ed]

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/871530

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/892476

Page content

Marru orro mutika. Buy me a truck. A reader in the Djinang language of central Arnhem Land. Story by the children of Gamardi, with help from Mr Johnny Watjpurrali. Illustrated by Marsha Ashwell. This text was negotiated during the Wurlaki/Djinang language workshop at Gamardi Homeland Centre School, October 17-21 1994. Wurlaki and Djinang are two of the dialects of the Djinang language group. They ore spoken in the sub-coastal country between the Blyth and Glyde Rivers in central Arnhem Land. The Djinang language group belongs to the Yulngu language family. Wurlaki is a Yirrtjinga dialect; Djinang is a Djowung dialect. 1995 Gamardi Homeland Centre School, Maningrida Community Education Centre. This book was produced as part of the Northern Territory Department of Education's Aboriginal Education Program (AEP), Initiative No. 2, Support for Aboriginal Languages in Schools. Funding for the NTDE AEP is provided by the Department of Employment Education and Training (DEED through the Commonwealth Government's Aboriginal Education Strategic Initiatives Program (AESIP). Produced at Maningrida Literature Production Centre, Private Mail Bag 67. Winnellie NT 0822. ISBN NO: 0 86783 337 8 ..