The Ma! Mawng Phrase Book
As well as providing users with a handy 400-entry traveller’s phrase book organised into categories such as ‘Going Places’, ‘Language’, ‘Land and Sea’, ‘Health and the Body’, and so on, this powerful app includes a ‘My Phrases’ section where users can record their own phrases with translations anywhere anytime. Anyone interacting with the language, including Mawng speakers, community workers, and researchers, becomes an instant documentary linguist. Adding a new phrase with transcription and translation is as simple as adding a new phone contact to your Contacts list.
Funding for the Ma! Mawng Phrase Book comes from the Fisheries Research Development Corporation (Project No. 2010-205: Warruwi Fisheries and Aquaculture Knowledge Partnership Project) and represents a collaboration between Dr Linda Ford (Senior Research Fellow, Northern Institute, CDU), Dr Ann Fleming (Manager of the Aquaculture Unit within the Fisheries Group of the NT Government), the Yagbani Aboriginal Corporation and the Warruwi Community, as well as the Indigenous Languages Support Program (Linguist and Language Technologist Bruce Birch).
Based on an original concept by Bruce Birch of the Australian National University, the structure and content of this app is based on the Ma! Iwaidja Phrase Book, which was the result of a collaboration between the Croker Island-based Iwaidja Inyman team (chief among whom was the late Joy Williams Malwagag), developers Pollen Interactive, and graphic designers David Lancashire Design. Programming was by Justin Liang.
Funding for the Ma! Mawng Phrase Book comes from the Fisheries Research Development Corporation (Project No. 2010-205: Warruwi Fisheries and Aquaculture Knowledge Partnership Project) and represents a collaboration between Dr Linda Ford (Senior Research Fellow, Northern Institute, CDU), Dr Ann Fleming (Manager of the Aquaculture Unit within the Fisheries Group of the NT Government), the Yagbani Aboriginal Corporation and the Warruwi Community, as well as the Indigenous Languages Support Program (Linguist and Language Technologist Bruce Birch).