Kalaw Kawaw Ya/Kalaw Lagaw Ya

[Struthiomimus]

The Western and Central Torres Strait Island language (Kalaw Lagaw Ya) is a Pama-Nyungan language with a strong Papuan influence spoken on islands in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea. I’ve been interested in this language for a while, but was stuck due to the lack of materials on the language. Until księżycowy came upon this:

http://www.sil.org.au/Resources/Digital ... fault.aspx

Heck to the yeah.

And then there’s the Wikipedia article, which is pretty substantial:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Lagaw_Ya

Hopefully more info will become available on KLY.

[Struthiomimus]

I came across this link a while ago:

http://www.arts.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... t-2005.pdf

It's the NILS 2005 report on the state of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' languages. I could have just as easily put this in the Arrernte, Warlpiri, or Pitjantjatjara threads, but this thread needs some love I haven't read through the whole thing yet, but at first glance, the future of KLY doesn't look so good

[Struthiomimus]

Found this video from the UCLA Phonetics Lab. Awesome!

[Struthiomimus]

I came across another video telling the story of Amipuru in KLY.