Nyungar = Noongar

Indigenous Peoples

Also spelled Nyoongar

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Recommended Listening
Word for Word #23 Noongar: The pulse of language – In Indigenous cultures, traditional languages are bound up with family, history and place. In this episode, we meet three Noongar people – Miles Franklin-winning novelist Kim Scott; music historian Clint Bracknell; and performer and director Kylie Bracknell – to ask how an ancient, endangered language can live and thrive today.

‘Positive reaction’ to Nyungar culture course
Gina Williams: Noongar language lives in song
WA Government signs landmark native title settlement
Noongarpedia: the first Aboriginal Wikipedia site

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http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/nyoongar

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"It was quite an emotional journey and it still overwhelms us [thinking about] the response that we received," director @farmer_kylie says of adapting Macbeth into Noongar language.
Catch up on this moving conversation with Wesley Enoch on #TheStageShow https://t.co/7CRqxjggly pic.twitter.com/R4tJagnz3p
— Arts on RN (@ArtsonRN) July 11, 2021

The WA Department of Education has begun the first step in a process that will allow Noongar language to be formally taught in schools, just as Asian and European languages are. https://t.co/bSyiq2TdKr
— ABC Perth (@abcperth) April 4, 2021

The Noongar language is spoken by the Indigenous people of Perth and WA’s south-west, but it's long been under threat.

A version of Shakespeare's Macbeth entirely rewritten in the Noongar language will debut at the Perth Festival next month.https://t.co/Cabn9qDwFb
— ABC Indigenous (@ABCIndigenous) January 25, 2020

Celebrate #NAIDOC2016 with our Sharing the Dreaming app, a window to the Nyoongar culture pic.twitter.com/yjEtFYxv7U
— Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia (@WAParksWildlife) July 7, 2016

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