Words Of Our Country
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Originally published | 1991 |
Authors | Robert M. W. Dixon |
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ID | 3116296 |
About Words Of Our Country
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. . . .