"Writing the South-West language" by Wilfrid Douglas
 

Authors

Wilfrid Douglas

Document Type

Book

Publisher

Western Australian College of Advanced Education

Place of Publication

Perth, Western Australia

Comments

Douglas, W. (1982). Writing the South-West language. Perth, Australia: Western Australian College of Advances Education.

Abstract

This book was intended primarily for South-west Aboriginal adults who were asking for help in writing their own language.

For a period, many of the South-west people were ashamed to speak their own language in front of "Wetjalas" (i.e. European Australians). A number of factors have changed this attitude so that, to-day, most of the people have become rightly proud of their old culture and language and many are attempting to salvage what they can of the South-west traditions.

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