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Jack Kanya Buckskin & Rob Amery Kaurna Warra Pintyandi & University of Adelaide

Introduction to the Kaurna language ‘Strategies’ workshop Session 1, 22 nd June 2010, Eugene OREGON. Jack Kanya Buckskin & Rob Amery Kaurna Warra Pintyandi & University of Adelaide rob.amery@adelaide.edu.au. Kaurna Yerta ‘Kaurna country’. Kaurna Yerta. The Dresden Missionary Society.

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Jack Kanya Buckskin & Rob Amery Kaurna Warra Pintyandi & University of Adelaide

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  1. Introduction to the Kaurna language‘Strategies’ workshopSession 1, 22nd June 2010, Eugene OREGON Jack Kanya Buckskin & Rob Amery Kaurna Warra Pintyandi & University of Adelaide rob.amery@adelaide.edu.au

  2. Kaurna Yerta‘Kaurna country’ Kaurna Yerta

  3. The Dresden Missionary Society • Schürmann & Teichelmann aboard the Pestonjee Bomanjee along with Gov. George Gawler • arrive in Adelaide on 14 October 1838.

  4. Teichelmann &Schürmann document the Kaurna language • Trained in philology in Dresden (Hebrew, Greek, Latin and a little Chinese) • Given instructions to translate the Bible as soon as they could master the language • Immediately set out to learn and document the Kaurna language • Published a sketch grammar, vocabulary and sentence examples in 1840 after just 18 months • Recorded several traditional Kaurna songlines (including secret sacred material)

  5. Sources of Kaurna Language T&S worked with Kaurna men including: • Kadlitpinna (opposite), • Mullawirraburka, • Ityamaiitpinna • Wauwityinna etc

  6. What is known of Kaurna from documented sources. • Vocabulary of 3,000 to 3,500 words (all except 200 or so recorded in T&S and TMs) • More than 100 new terms for new things (eg nurlitti ‘key’; pintyandi ‘to write’) • A reasonable sketch grammar (T&S, Teich) • Several hundred translated sentence examples (all but a few recorded in T&S and TMs) • 8 short traditional songlines (5 in T&S; 1 by Schürmann; 2 by Moorhouse) • Very few texts

  7. Kaurna Language Reclamation: A brief history • 1980 naming of Warriappendi Alternative School • 1980s Aboriginal Studies curriculum culminating in The Kaurna People (1989) • 1990 Songwriter’s workshop – 6 Kaurna songs • Annual Kaurna workshops 1990-1993 • Introduced to Kaurna Plains School 1992

  8. Current Situation • Kaurna is currently taught at all levels including kindergarten, primary, junior secondary, senior secondary, adult (TAFE) and university • Used increasingly in the public domain • Used to a minimal extent within some Kaurna homes and within the community • Ongoing projects and research

  9. Kaurna Warra Pintyandi (KWP) • Hosted by the University of Adelaide • Fields requests for Kaurna names, translations etc. • Plans and monitors use of the Kaurna language • Consultative body re Kaurna language matters • Produces Kaurna language resources

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