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Diyari ( / ˈdiːjɑːri /) or Dieri ( / ˈdɪəri /) [4] is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Diyari people in the far north of South Australia, to the east of Lake Eyre. It was studied by German Lutheran missionaries who translated Christian works into the language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so that it developed ...
Feb 12, 2021 · The language is also known as Dieri, Diari, Diyeri or Diererie. Diyari was first studied by German missionaries. They set up a Christian mission station at Lake Killalpaninna on Cooper Creek in 1867 and divised a way to write the language with the Latin alphabet. They translated religious works into Diyari, used it in their mission school, and ...
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Welcome to the Diyari website, which presents information about the language and culture of the Dieri people, whose traditional lands are in the far north of South Australia, to the east of Lake Eyre. On this site there are various resources arising from our research on Diyari since 1972, including our work on the Diyari Dictionary created by ...
The Diyari language is spoken by the Dieri people, whose traditional lands are located to the east of Lake Eyre in the far north of South Australia. Today there are a number of Elders who can speak the language fluently, and quite a lot who have some command of it. Most Dieri community members know words and expressions, and people of all ages ...
Diyari or Dieri is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Diyari people in the far north of South Australia, to the east of Lake Eyre. It was studied by German Lutheran missionaries who translated Christian works into the language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so that it developed an extensive written form. Only a few fluent speakers of Diyari remained by the early 21st ...
Peter is a retired language researcher who lives in London. He bgan his research on Diyari in 1972 as an undergraduate student and spent 1974 doing fieldwork in northern South Australia with Dieri teachers for his BA honours degree. From 1975 to 1978 he did a PhD on the grammar of Diyari, recording around 70 hours of interviews and ...
