A school lesson in Aboriginal language Guugu Yimidhirr

[@coyotelong4349]

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]

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

[@NearonTC]

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]

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.

[@Pauliepoika]

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!

[@heartobefelt]

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

[@edwardpootchemunka8027]

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

[@ralfnyberg3264]

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]

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?

[@JO-qu3zv]

Beautiful children and great lesson.

[@shaunicaleecheu172]

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 :)

[@manusharte1160]

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

[@NearonTC]

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

[@AleksandarGrozdanoski]

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

[@DOBBYau]

fantastic work

[@babinyuvas3607]

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

[@narenhansdaindia7653]

Informative and Excellent video

[@BalandaMiyalk]

Love this! Thanks for sharing :)

[@joelimerekula]

Reviving indigenous languages, through the national curriculum.

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

yiyi This is I can speak guugu timidhirrbi

[@DarrylGonzales]

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

[@dj3us]

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

[@DarrylGonzales]

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

[@bartspongebob9879]

Just beautiful

[@nyunhong6306]

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

[@solared]

Toivottavasti.

[@livianegidius9772]

LOVE TO LEARN IT!

[@henriashurst-pitkanen8735]

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.

[@sudharani5467]

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

[@AnimalLover24561]

i love these videos

[@BogMika]

wow

[@highrevs6110]

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

[@AmmoniteDragon]

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

[@solared]

I'm not sure but it seems very interesting.

[@wolframhuttermann7519]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@Jimmybay]

absolute garbage

[@lalitkumardhruw9574]

Gondi language same guugu yimidhirr language

[@NearonTC]

Lalit Kumar Dhruw Which area is Gondi language from?

[@wombathead87]

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]

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

[@karthikdon5]

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

[@gayvideos3808]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@gayvideos3808]

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

[@karthikdon5]

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

[@manjawa5623]

Karthi Keyan k really? interesting to know..

[@karthikdon5]

@@manjawa5623 yes I can understand every single word

[@gayvideos3808]

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

[@sleetskate]

sounds like spanish

[@bromancerules28]

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

[@augustopolloni8573]

It's not at all like spanish trust me

[@virginiajpierre2632]

sleetskate same

[@MultiGetoverit]

NO THE FUCK IT DOESNT YOU STUPID BITCH

[@syprex5636]

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