Archive for September, 2008

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Catch me on World News

If you’re in Australia, tune in to SBS World News tonight either tomorrow or Sunday night [I just got a call from them; they've bumped it back to the weekend] at 6:30pm. I have a feeling that there’ll be an interesting report on indigenous languages in Australia, and the use of modern technology (such as [...]

8 Comments » - Posted in Endangered Languages,Indigenous,Kaurna,Languages,Linguistics,Media,Technology by jangari

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Australex

A few weeks ago I mentioned that a bunch of us at Sydney Uni had submitted an abstract for a conference presentation of the Kaurna electronic dictionary. Just recently, we received the news that our abstract has been accepted. So, if you’re planning on coming along to Australex ’08 at the Victoria University of Wellington [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Endangered Languages,Kaurna,Languages,Lexicography,Linguistics,Technology by jangari

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Conferences, Seminars and Dictionaries

As it’s been about a month since my last post, it’s probably about time I posted something at least to ensure that this site doesn’t get referred to as a ‘dead blog’. To make matters worse, not only have I not been posting, I’ve also been neglecting my reciprocal blogger duties of reading other people’s [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Endangered Languages,Indigenous,Kaurna,Languages,Lexicography,Linguistics,Technology,University by jangari