Interesting Stuff
US-based Australian linguist
Carmel O'Shannessy has documented what she believes are "the beginnings of what's been described as
the world's newest known spoken language."
Light Walpiri is described as a blend of one small indigenous
Australian town's traditional Aboriginal language, Warlpiri, plus
English and a form of Aboriginal English known as Kriol. Read more about
Light Walpiri, and O'Shannessy's work,
at the professor's academic website. And below, videos of an Aboriginal child reading a monster story in Walpiri, and in Light Walpiri.
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