A school lesson in Aboriginal language Guugu Yimidhirr

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  • Опубліковано 12 лис 2024
  • Learn some of one of Australia’s first recorded ancestral languages, Guugu Yimidhirr. Take a class with Guugu Yimidhirr teacher, Lillian Bowen, as she teaches children in Hope Vale. Pay attention in class and you can’t help but be moved by this effort to keep part of Cape York’s linguistic treasury alive.

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  • @coyotelong4349
    @coyotelong4349 7 років тому +22

    What a beautiful and fascinating video. As a European-American, I love to see the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia keeping their native languages alive and passing them onto new generations through the classroom, as it should be done. Our languages and cultures we brought through colonialism should never replace the native languages and cultures. Rather, they should coexist...

  • @keegan6666
    @keegan6666 6 років тому +35

    as a white Australian, i would rather learn this in school and more about aboriginal culture as opposed to the compulsory Indonesian and other classes they teach

    • @YimidhiirWakaminPama
      @YimidhiirWakaminPama 4 роки тому +2

      keegan - We need more white Australian people like you. With that open-minded mindset towards our people, instead of the usual mindset that we see from majority of white Australian people. It will further help us close the gap and better relations, instead of the usual bitter treatment against each other. Language, to both Non-Indigenous and Indigenous youth, in schools, will see a bright future ahead.

  • @tenzinsangpo5652
    @tenzinsangpo5652 6 років тому +9

    never lose your language. language means culture and identity. i am from a little part in the north of Spain (basque country ) thanks God we keep our language still alive (euskera, basque language) God bless you all.

  • @edwardpootchemunka8027
    @edwardpootchemunka8027 2 роки тому +2

    I come from Aurukun been living in Hope Vale and I know a few Language from Hope Vale it's good to Learn Language from other Communities

  • @heartobefelt
    @heartobefelt 9 років тому +16

    thanks for posting the video.
    hopefully one day there will be more videos teaching us all how to speak many aboriginal languages.

  • @Pauliepoika
    @Pauliepoika 6 років тому +4

    This was great! The teacher was excellent and I hope the kids take this language and run with it. I even began to understand what this lady was saying in the short amount of time she was teaching, so kudos to the teacher!

  • @ralfnyberg3264
    @ralfnyberg3264 7 років тому +10

    It's lovely how you are keeping the aboriginal languages of Australia alive. If you would have classes teaching adults too, you'd be amazed how many would take part in them. You should also put some basics to youtube!
    Love from Finland!

    • @Pauliepoika
      @Pauliepoika 6 років тому +2

      ralf nyberg I’m from Finland, too! I wonder how we got to watch the same video on such a minority language that most likely very few have heard of?

  • @shaunicaleecheu172
    @shaunicaleecheu172 6 років тому +1

    Deadly Muki Lilly love sitting in the class room talking guugu yimithirr was the best days when I was in primary school at Hope Vale I won't forget my guugu yimithirr lanague :)

  • @AleksandarGrozdanoski
    @AleksandarGrozdanoski 5 років тому +2

    This is a beautiful-sounding language and I find it easy to hear its sounds and pronounce them.

  • @JO-qu3zv
    @JO-qu3zv 7 років тому +7

    Beautiful children and great lesson.

  • @manusharte1160
    @manusharte1160 5 років тому +3

    Really wish I could learn this language.... sounds really interesting. Language is a wonderful thing

    • @YimidhiirWakaminPama
      @YimidhiirWakaminPama 4 роки тому +1

      Manus Harte There’s a website with the languages of Cape York (Far North Queensland) and this is one of them. It teaches you basic sentences. I’m using that and my family, from my Father’s side, who are Guugu-Yimithirr, to learn it better. I’m lucky I have family that speak our language so I can learn it through practice with them

  • @joelimerekula
    @joelimerekula 3 роки тому +2

    Reviving indigenous languages, through the national curriculum.

  • @babinyuvas3607
    @babinyuvas3607 8 років тому +5

    Brilliant!!! Congratulations to all involved - great footage to share , awesome teacher

  • @DOBBYau
    @DOBBYau 8 років тому +7

    fantastic work

  • @BalandaMiyalk
    @BalandaMiyalk 6 років тому +2

    Love this! Thanks for sharing :)

  • @Garfield_Minecraft
    @Garfield_Minecraft 2 роки тому +2

    yiyi
    This is
    I can speak guugu timidhirrbi

  • @narenhansdaindia7653
    @narenhansdaindia7653 5 років тому +1

    Informative and Excellent video

  • @nyunhong6306
    @nyunhong6306 6 років тому +4

    wish I am the first Chinese learn this language.
    希望呢個語言得以保留

    • @solared
      @solared 3 роки тому

      Toivottavasti.

  • @DarrylGonzales
    @DarrylGonzales 6 років тому +2

    Fascinating language. In Filipino, "bayan" actually also means municipality, or in a broader sense, country. In Guugu Yimidhirr, it means house.

    • @dj3us
      @dj3us 6 років тому

      I only know this bayan, lol
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayan_(accordion)

    • @DarrylGonzales
      @DarrylGonzales 6 років тому

      This is another bayan meaning I know. Just some additional information.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayan_(settlement)
      Thanks for sharing.

  • @henriashurst-pitkanen8735
    @henriashurst-pitkanen8735 6 років тому +3

    Solid classroom teaching is important, but it would also be nice to see the kids learning it in a less intensive manner, for example, practicing amongst each other, or even better, being encouraged to speak it with parents. As a person who grew up learning Welsh in the manner depicted in this video, I would have loved to have more of an encouraging environment to take the language outside school, but the entire language world outside school is totally dominated by English (at least in Southern Wales) and I'm quite sure the same is true of Australia. I'm just a bit worried some of the kids might lose interest if it's solely viewed as a classroom thing.

  • @livianegidius9772
    @livianegidius9772 6 років тому

    LOVE TO LEARN IT!

  • @sudharani5467
    @sudharani5467 7 років тому

    The song is very beautiful. May i know who sung it, how old the song is and it's lyrics..
    This is for academic interest..
    Thank you

  • @bartspongebob9879
    @bartspongebob9879 6 років тому

    Just beautiful

  • @highrevs6110
    @highrevs6110 5 років тому

    This will be very useful finding work, especially in international business with the Chinese.

  • @AnimalLover24561
    @AnimalLover24561 9 років тому

    i love these videos

  • @wolframhuttermann7519
    @wolframhuttermann7519 8 років тому +36

    Australia is unfortunately the cemetery of languages. In no other country more than 100 languages died out in the past 100 years, not even in Papua Newguinea. This must be changed and I hope that the Bible can be translated in all Aboriginal languages.

    • @烏梨師斂
      @烏梨師斂 8 років тому +2

      why the Bible?
      also a safer approach I think would be to standardize the pama-nyugan languages.
      Make it the sole official language of Australia

    • @chea.5416
      @chea.5416 7 років тому +7

      WHY? native australians have been robbed of everything. I mean just look at these children, their skin is ligher due to a scheme by the british to breed the 'blackness' out of them. the last thing they need is the bible. a culture that had exivsted for tens of thousands of years practically wiped out. it is wonderful that it is being revived again.

    • @squares4u
      @squares4u 7 років тому +2

      Chehine Aouadi The primary thing they need is the Bible. As a Christian, I stand by this statement wholeheartedly. It's also a primary way to document and preserve a language due to the Bible's widespread usage, the universal knowledge of it, and its variety of words and names.

    • @friendlesswhore7454
      @friendlesswhore7454 7 років тому +9

      squares4u
      That bullshit full of myths is the last thing anyone needs.

    • @Jimmybay
      @Jimmybay 7 років тому +3

      absolute garbage

  • @BogMika
    @BogMika 6 років тому +2

    wow

  • @AmmoniteDragon
    @AmmoniteDragon 5 років тому

    Wait, so is this subject object verb? Even for questions?

    • @solared
      @solared 3 роки тому

      I'm not sure but it seems very interesting.

  • @lalitkumardhruw9574
    @lalitkumardhruw9574 6 років тому +1

    Gondi language same guugu yimidhirr language

  • @wombathead87
    @wombathead87 2 роки тому

    Mate aboriginal language is easier to pronounce than majority of other languages shows how much Australian English accent and how our British language has evolved. I found it extremely easy to replicate the sounds.

  • @mohamed-2711
    @mohamed-2711 6 років тому

    It sounds like South Indian languages like Tamil. words are also very lengthy just like Tamil.

    • @karthikdon5
      @karthikdon5 6 років тому

      Yes I can recognise his words, I am Tamil, I can hear 70% of his words what he is saying

    • @gayvideos3808
      @gayvideos3808 5 років тому +1

      @@karthikdon5 No you fucking can't. Australian Aboriginal languages such as Guugu Yimidhirr aren't even related to Tamil. If you actually spoke Tamil you wouldn't understand a word of it.

    • @karthikdon5
      @karthikdon5 5 років тому

      @@gayvideos3808 says who, you fool I said I can understand what they speak, only those who speaks Tamil easily understands their language which is Tamil too, who ya trying to teach idiot

    • @gayvideos3808
      @gayvideos3808 5 років тому +2

      @@karthikdon5 Their language isn't Tamil. Guugu Yimidhirr is a completely unrelated language to Tamil. Tamil speakers can't understand it.

    • @gayvideos3808
      @gayvideos3808 5 років тому

      @@karthikdon5 What are some examples of words you can understand?

  • @karthikdon5
    @karthikdon5 6 років тому

    Oh my god, he is speaking south Indian language Tamil, my language, I can understand what he is saying

    • @manjawa5623
      @manjawa5623 5 років тому

      Karthi Keyan k really? interesting to know..

    • @karthikdon5
      @karthikdon5 5 років тому

      @@manjawa5623 yes I can understand every single word

    • @gayvideos3808
      @gayvideos3808 5 років тому +1

      Bull fucking shit. You obviously don't speak Tamil at all.

  • @sleetskate
    @sleetskate 7 років тому +4

    sounds like spanish

    • @bromancerules28
      @bromancerules28 7 років тому +13

      It sounds like a southern Indian language to me - Tamil, Malayalam or Kannada.

    • @augustopolloni8573
      @augustopolloni8573 7 років тому +10

      It's not at all like spanish trust me

    • @virginiajpierre2632
      @virginiajpierre2632 6 років тому

      sleetskate same

    • @MultiGetoverit
      @MultiGetoverit 6 років тому +2

      NO THE FUCK IT DOESNT YOU STUPID BITCH

    • @syprex5636
      @syprex5636 6 років тому

      it would be great because me, a native spanish speaker will be able to learn some of it, but unfortunately, it doesn't sound like spanish at all