Description
The many Yolngu Languages were carried by the world making Ancestral Beings invested in the lands they conjured into existence. Languages remain the origin of Yolngu institutions from which our kinship and land governance institutions, and many more, derive. In this decolonising linguistic yarning circle, two traditional owners of Yolngu language present the ways in which they diplomatically engage with the scientific linguistic tradition of the orthography and taxonomy of Yolngu language, which in modernity proposes itself as ‘a proper standard’. Taking seriously Yolngu ways of knowing their language, two non-Indigenous collaborators who both have a long-term kinship and co-labouring partnerships with Yolngu educationalists, modestly propose an ontological multiplicity of the concept of Yolngu language. We consider how both Yolngu traditional owners of languages, and non-Indigenous scholars of language, care for language as complex relation, in the contemporary institution of Charles Darwin University.| Period | 21 Nov 2023 |
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| Event title | Spinning a Better Yarn: decolonising linguistics study group |
| Event type | Other |