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23.01.2022 Black Rock Band's new track now available! 'Red Black and Yellow' is the first single from a new Black Rock Band album, ‘Identity.’This track is released in the lead up to National Reconciliation Week Black Rock Band's frontman is Ritchie Guymala. https://blackrockband.bandcamp.com/tra/red-black-and-yellow
21.01.2022 Learn Kunwinjku online in 2020! 4 week course 19 October - 13 November Workload 3-4 hours per week Cost $500 per person... Register at https://webpay.cdu.edu.au/BK-KNP All online work from home in your own time No prior language knowledge required. The Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre in conjunction with Charles Darwin University are pleased to offer this online course teaching the language and culture of the Bininj people of Kakadu National Park and West Arnhem Land. This special short (4 week) course is being provided specifically for staff of Kakadu National Park, and will also include some additional information about the Kundjeyhmi language. The online course is open to anyone to join. By the end of the course, participants will be able to engage in simple conversations with Bininj, with a strong focus on family connections. Each topic includes vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, reading, cultural information and activities. This is largely the same as the previous short course offered earlier in 2020, and the beginning of the CDU semester course. https://bininj-kunwok.cdu.edu.au/
20.01.2022 The Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre and Charles Darwin University are offering a 6 week online course to learn Kunwinjku, one of the Bininj languages spo...ken in Gunbalanya and across West Arnhem Land 8 June 17 July (6 weeks) Cost $600 per person Expected time commitment 3-4 hours per week All content delivered online No set lecture times, but will set up opportunities to practise with speakers online Register at https://bininj-kunwok.cdu.edu.au/
20.01.2022 Xmas Carol in English / Kunwinjku - "Little baby Jesus" Nayahwurd Wurdyaw Jesus - sung by Jill Nganjmirra and Seraine Namundja ("Nu Nu " means when a baby is sleepy.)... https://youtu.be/CSm57nBBEVc
19.01.2022 Bulanj Neville Namarnyilk explains seasons right now, what's happening, how we know when the season changes to Yekke and leave Bangkerreng behind. He made this video for a webinar last Sunday for Environment Centre Northern Terrritory.
17.01.2022 Indigenous Literacy Day - Where did Bininj Kunwok spelling come from? Follow the link to watch and listen as Lois Nadjamerrek tells the story of how Kunwinjku and other Bininj Kunwok languages in West Arnhemland and Kakadu National Park came to have the spelling system they have now. https://youtu.be/LX7E2hc2-hM
17.01.2022 The National Agreement on Closing the Gap which was announced this week carries a number of measures to support the goal - By 2031, there is a sustained increase in number and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages being spoken. Outcome 16 of the Agreement targets an increase in the numbers of people speaking languages, as well as those accessing commonwealth funded language centres to maintain and preserve their languages. The Government will be lookin...g to measure economic opportunities that arise for language speakers as well as tracking the use of language in communities, schools and media. The Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre hopes to be part of these new measures to meet these goals.
17.01.2022 Kakadu Bird Week - ngarradj song by Jill Nganjmirra. Jill and her family used to listen to elders telling this story about the sulphur-crested cockatoo, who goes looking for the nuts of the pandanus tree. These nuts hang from the branches and drop to the ground. The cockatoo gets excited and sings this song while biting the nuts, then has a full belly.https://youtu.be/ZjqZ2DLrNqI
16.01.2022 In 1948 the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land went to Kunbarlanja (Gunbalanya) in western Arnhem Land. ABC journalist Colin Simpson recorded a morrdjdjanjno hunting song from Wurrik clansman Larry Marrawana. These songs were sung at sunrise before men went out to hunt these kangaroos. The words are in special morrdjdjanjno song language and refer to various aspects of the animal, their appearance, where they hide and their power as non-human persons. See video post below. Transcription by Lewis Naborlhborlh and Murray Garde.
16.01.2022 Kakadu Bird Week - Kernalk song by Mary Nadjamerrek (Kodjdjan Ngalwakmarranj) about the ibis bird, who sings this song while looking for food in billabongs and rivers. In old song language, meaning of many words now forgotten. https://youtu.be/vFDUidaEkoA
13.01.2022 The sounds of the Bininj Kunwok alphabet. Are you a school teacher with students who speak a Bininj Kunwok variety (e.g. Kunwinjku, Kuninjku, Kune)? To learn how to read and write in Bininj Kunwok you need first to learn the Bininj Kunwok alphabet and the sounds each symbol represents.
13.01.2022 Have a go at this puzzle made by Seraine Namundja from Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. From the West Arnhem Wire.
12.01.2022 Injalak Arts - two finalists in 2020 Telstra Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Don Namundja and Titus Nganjmira are finalists, Titus for his astonishing painting of Queen Elizabeth. See Don and Titus's works at the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT in Darwin from August 8.
10.01.2022 Learn Kunwinjku short course June-July! Announcing a short course for Balanda to learn Kunwinjku language and culture. Charles Darwin University and the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre will offer an online course from 8 June 17 July. Cost $600, commitment 3-4 hours per week.... All online work from home at your own pace. Opportunities to practise with Bininj. (12 week course also offered from July October requires university enrolment) Details at https://bininj-kunwok.cdu.edu.au/
09.01.2022 From West Arnhem Wire
09.01.2022 Kakadu Bird Week - Dell Hunter's take on a famous Aussie song....https://youtu.be/1O6Zp_ZwS6w
09.01.2022 Black Rock Band - Identity - new album now available This album is a reflection for us all to think about and maintain our culture and language. We created the album to encourage First Nations people around Australia and the world to stick together. This is building a bridge between the two different worlds that we live in. - Richie Guymala https://blackrockband.bandcamp.com/album/identity
09.01.2022 As part of the development of our Banksia Garden we have embedded Indigenous Australian quotes of the importance of Banksia to culture into the paths and landsc...ape of the garden, and translated them into English. Jill Nganjmirra (Ngalwakadj skin, Burlalhdja clan) chairperson of the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre shares, "In the old days when our ancestors had a toothache, they would gather Banksia cones, place them in the smoke of the fire, then apply the heat from the cones to their cheeks. Then the toothache would stop. (Banksia dentata tropical Banksia)" Her translation is from Kunwinjku, one of the three languages still regularly spoken in the Kakadu National Park region. Korroko nawu dabborrabbolk bu birridoweni djudju kore kuyidme, wanjh birrimangi kuybuk, bu birriwolngwoni kore kunak, wanjh birringarlbakkinjerreni. Wanjh ngurdmi nawu djudju munguyh-munguyh. The theme of National Reconciliation Week is #InThisTogether. At the Australian National Botanic Gardens we look to share and value Indigenous Australians' rich plant knowledge that has been critical to their survival as the oldest living culture. The Banksia Garden will open in late 2020. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre #reconciliationweek #NRW2020 #InThisTogether2020 #Banksia2020 #anbg50th Visit Canberra
07.01.2022 Darwin had some good rain last night - so why not have a listen to what Jill Nganjmirra says about this kind of relatively unusual rain during the hot dry season in her language, Kunwinjku.
07.01.2022 New children's book "My Name is Patricia" in English language about a young Kune speaking student 'Patricia'. A self-published children’s book by Maningrida resident Ingrid Stonhill tells the story of ten-year-old Patricia, a local girl who balances traditional Aboriginal life with her ambition to excel at school. The story is told in English, but Kune is Patricia’s first language inherited from her mother and grandmother. Ms Stonhill, who is also the CEO of the Bawinanga Ab...original Corporation, said writing children’s books that bring about change is a personal passion. Ms Stonhill said the book was a two-year project, complicated by the challenge of translating the story into Kune. There is no Kune/English dictionary and some English words have no meaning in Kune, which is quite an ancient language and spoken by only a small group. It was important get it right because Kune is a language at risk of extinction. It is not well recorded or taught at school. Ms Stonhill said she fears a Covid 19 outbreak in Maningrida, and the inevitable deaths, could make the language extinct in a matter of months. My Name is Patricia is available for purchase through the Bábbarra Women’s Centre Website https://babbarra.com/ for $20 plus postage. Book sales will help fund Maningrida Art and Culture’s Language and Culture Office. (text from West Arnhem Wire) https://www.westarnhem.nt.gov.au//children-book-aims-inspi
07.01.2022 Do you live in Gunbalanya, Jabiru or Darwin and have an interest in learning Bininj Kunwok (i.e. Kunwinjku and other varieties like Kundjeyhmi)? If so, the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre is considering face to face classes in either Jabiru, Gunbalanya or Darwin. Here is a survey for us to get an idea of the numbers of students who would be interested and your location: https://forms.gle/FWxeChDRNk1eLD9r8 Bu yidjare yiborlbme kunwok kadberre, mahni survey yibimbun kanbengdayhke ngadberre ba bidyikarrme course ngarrimarnbun kore Jabiru, Kunbarlanja dja Darwin.
06.01.2022 Starts on Monday - sign up so you don't miss out!
04.01.2022 https://nit.com.au/remote-school-nawarddeken-academy-suppo/
04.01.2022 Morrdjdjanjno song by Larry Marrawana recorded by ABC journalist Colin Simpson in 1948 at Kunbarlanja as part of the 1948 Australian-American Expedition to Arnhem Land.
03.01.2022 Listen here to the new track from Black Rock Band https://blackrockband.bandcamp.com/track/if-it-was-me
03.01.2022 From the West Arnhem Wire newsletter. Have a go!
02.01.2022 From West Arnhem Wire......have a go!
01.01.2022 If you're trying to get your head and tongue around Kunwinjku verbs like ka-re, kabirri-ngun or wam, and feel almost like you want to throw in the towel, it's worth having a listen to Murray Guard from a few years ago giving the low down in these podcasts. Take them a bit at a time, and in between go out there and practise! https://bininjkunwok.org.au/audio/
