New dictionary aims to 'awaken' language not spoken fluently for 100 years

In short:

Bunurong elders, linguists and community members are working to revive a language that has not been spoken fluently for more than a century.

Using 19th-century records, they are reconstructing Bunurong word by word and returning it to community use.

What’s next?

The dictionary has been launched online, and community members are now beginning to speak their tongue on country again.

#BloomScrolling while strolling on #Bunurong country near #Kilkunda coastal vicinity also known as Boonwurrung Country, traditional lands of the Bunurong people of the #Kulin nation in south-eastern Victoria, Australia, stretching from the Werribee River to Wilson's Promontory.
https://www.bunuronglc.org/rap-map.html

#Banksia

You may have noticed Australians declaring they live on "unceded [odd word] land".

The odd word is a location, but where is it?

I live on the land of the Bunurong, which runs Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory, taking in the north and east coast of Port Phillip Bay then along the coast to Inverloch, and inland to Bunyip and Warragul.

The Bunurong are members of the Kulin nation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulin_nation (warning: very bad map)

#Australia #Victoria #Mebourne #Bunurong

20th January 2025 https://www.basscoast.vic.gov.au/tunnerminnerwait-and-maulboyheenner

#HarmersHaven #WishartReserve #Wonthaggi #BassCoast #SouthGippsland #Bunurong #FirstNations
#Tunnerminnerwait & #Maulboyheenner

10am - 12pm
Monday January 20th 2025

(Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner were captured at Harmers Haven near Wonthaggi and later publicly executed in Melbourne)

Rewriting the history of Naarm/Melbourne: new info on Port Philip flooding. It may have filled only 1000 years ago. Aboriginal stories of it filling recently & in days matches the western geology that the silted entrance breached suddenly, not gradually after the last glacial maximum & full around 10k years BP

https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08120099.2023.2230598?journalCode=taje20

#archaeology #geoscience #Bunurong #Melbourne #sealevel

#Melbourne bird lovers... can anyone tell me what sort of #bird would fly at night in groups of 10-12, in the shape of a vee?

The stars that beckon my mind and eyes upward into the realms of eternity were temporarily blocked by such a vee.

We get a lot of ibis, cockatoos, gulls and pelicans here in #Bunurong country, but would any of those fly at night?