ABC Open: Mother Tongue - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

Yaama Ghubhii: Connect Song
Connection song that welcomes people to Gamillaroi Land in traditional language, sung by students from a local Public School

My Pride and Joy Stick
When Aunty Lee Healy decided to make the first dictionary for the Taungurung language she didn't know what she was in for

Strong Sister
Rhonda Radley is a descendant of the Gathan and Dunghutti speaking people. She drives a movement to bring women from different Aboriginal groups together, and to revive culture through language and practices.

Aarli
This is a story about fishing methods in Bardi Jawi country on the Dampier Peninsula in the West Kimberley. The Bardi Jawi Rangers share their local knowledge including Bardi words for local fish.

Warrgamay River Animals
Set in the Broadwater National Park in North Queensland, Uncle Bill shares why the swimming hole is special to his people and teaches us Warrgamay language along the way.

Wadawurrung Language
Short stories and language from Wadawurrung country in Victoria

Our Mother Tongue: Wiradjuri
A language that's transforming a town. In Parkes each week over 1000 people learn the Wiradjuri language, taught in every primary school as well as in high schools and at TAFE

Shelly Beach
Port Lincoln

Barndi Warany: Good Feed
Set in Wajarri country inland from Geraldton, Western Australia. Rosalie Jones cooks some Marlu Guga - Kangaroo meat and some Damba - Damper for her family while speaking Wajarri language.

Our Mother Tongue: Woiwurrung
Wurundjuri elder Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy shares her story about her connection to the Woiwurrung language

Keeping An Ancient Language Alive
A few people speak the Indigenous Djabuguy language fluently. Michael Quinn, an Englishman, is one of them.

Our Mother Tongue: GunaiKurnai
This is a story about a dynamic group of women who are reviving the GunaiKurnai language throughout East Gippsland in Victoria.

Marrin Gamu
The Marrin Gamu song was created to introduce Australians to the diversity and beauty of our first languages. It is sung by school students in five languages; Kalaw Kawaw Ya, Warrgamay, Nywaygi, Yugambeh and Wiradjuri.

Count to 10 in Gomeroi
Counting to 10 in the traditional Gomeroi language

The Buyungurra Who Didn't Listen

Kaurna Numbers
Counting to 10 in Kaurna

Yamani, Voices of an Ancient Land
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