Sentences with phrase «australian language families»
Not everyone agrees that Pama - Nyungan is one family, however, for, like other Australian language families, it presents a puzzling pattern of similarities and differences.
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My only problems, at the beginning, were being far apart from family and friends, as well as the difficulty in understanding the language, especially the Australian accent!
It is not merely an accident of language that the appalling infant mortality and peri-natal morbidity rates for Indigenous infants results in vastly disproportionate «hospital separations» today, and that the juvenile justice systems of Australia continue to separate Indigenous children from their families at rates well beyond those for other Australian children.
The Australian Childhood Foundation is a national organisation aimed at protecting children and preventing abuse and violence and have a range of useful resources for families available in multiple languages.
A number of Ngunawal family groups are working with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to rebuild their language.
The intergenerational transmission of Australian Indigenous languages: why language maintenance programmes should be family - focused.
Interestingly, of the parents who never swear, 19 % believe their children are learning to swear from parents, suggesting there are quite a few Australian families where one parent has more colourful language than the other.
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