Language policy, planning, and standardization
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2023
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Amery, R.
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Bowern, C.
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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages, 2023 / Bowern, C. (ed./s), Ch.61, pp.707-719
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Rob Amery
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This chapter discusses policies and deliberate measures that shape Australian Indigenous languages and their use. Past policies have resulted in loss of most Australian languages and marginalization of those remaining. However, over the past half-century policy has shifted. Whilst there have been major advances (funding for Aboriginal language centres and language projects; 2017 NSW Aboriginal Languages Act; 2015 national curriculum for Australian languages in schools; 2009 National Indigenous Languages Policy) there are still major gaps. There remains no national recognition of Indigenous languages, and few training opportunities and career paths for language workers and teachers of Indigenous languages. Australian languages remain under-funded and marginalized. Language planning measures are viewed in this chapter from three inter-related perspectives: status planning, corpus planning, and education planning. It is grounded in a Kaurna case study of the Adelaide Plains language, where extensive standardization measures have been applied to re-awakening language over three decades.
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© Rob Amery (2023)