Śpiące języki, czyli słów kilka o sytuacji językowej rdzennych mieszkańców Australii (na przykładzie języka gamilaraay z Nowej Południowej Walii)

• Authors: Zuzanna Bułat Silva

Title variants

EN

Sleeping languages, afew remarks on the linguistic situation of Aboriginal people in Australia (through the specific case of Gamilaraay, an Aboriginal language of New South Wales)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of this article is to investigate revival linguistics, anew branch of linguistics as yet little known in Poland, through the specific case of the recent revival of Gamilaraay, an Aboriginal language of New South Wales, Australia. After discussing the classification of the world’s languages according to their vitality, the author presents the language situation in Australia and offers adefinition of revival linguistics, justifying its relevance to the revitalization of Aboriginal languages, including some that have been extinct for up to two hundred years.

Keywords

EN

revival linguistics; Gamilaraay; extinct languages; sleeping languages; language reclamation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Język a Kultura
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 337-346

Contributors

author

Zuzanna Bułat Silva

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski