Words of Our Country : Yidiny - The Aboriginal Language of the Cairns - Yarrabah Region.

This book explores an Aboriginal lifestyle through its words. For many thousands of years the Yidiny language was spoken by the Aborigines of the Cairns-Atherton Tablelands region. Today the people and the words are all but extinct. Here, in tracking this sophisticated language, linguist R.M.W. (Bob...

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Main Author: Dixon, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Queensland Press, 2014.
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