\u2018Yan\u2019 means \u2018language\u2019 and \u2018nha\u014bu\u2019 means \u2018this\u2019 or \u2018here\u2019.<\/p>\n
Yan-nha\u014bu is the language of here, of this place, this homeland, its songs, stories and colours.<\/p>\n
The Yan-nha\u014bu people are the indigenous inhabitants of the Crocodile Islands. They are part of the Yol\u014bu nation. They live in the communities of Maningrida, Milingimbi, Galiwin\u2019ku and Ramingining and surrounding homelands. Like all Yol\u014bu they speak many languages including Yol\u014bu matha, the \u2018people\u2019s tongue\u2019, and English. This book was created to help people understand more about this history– the history of our world, the times and tides of the Crocodile Islands.<\/p>\n
This Atlas is for everyone. It is filled with the knowledge of homelands, kinship, and country but no secret or sacred information is revealed. Remember the words in this Atlas belong to Yol\u014bu people. And Yol\u014bu people have always generously shared their world, language, music and knowledge with people who respect these gifts. This is a gift for you to share with others who will respect it.<\/p>\n
The ATLAS has three parts; maps and diagrams, black and white history and an illustrated dictionary. The first part tells us about where we are. The second part tells us about where we have been and the last part tells us about and names what is around us. To make the most of these stories it is useful to know how to read the sounds of the Yol\u014bu language. The Atlas explains how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 31 cm. and 573 pages the trilingual Atlas is an utterly unique, magnificent, and extremely rare text with less than 20 copies remaining in the author\u2019s private collection. All other copies have been handed out to schools, libraries, and homelands across Arnhem Land. In 1993 less than 3OO words of Yan-nha\u014bu were recorded. The trilingual Atlas and dictionary contain rare colour maps and diagrams, a hundred year oral and photographic history of the Crocodile Islands in English and Yan-nha\u014bu and a 4000 word illustrated dictionary in Yan-nha\u014bu, Yol\u014bu and English. It includes a bibliography, indexes in three languages, history of Yan-nha\u014bu language origins, semantic domains, user notes, pronunciation guide, sketch grammar, biography of Laurie Gawany Baymarrwa\u014ba, illustrations of marine song lines, seasonal amenities, fish traps, fresh water, seasonal availability of resources and winds of inter-island travel, sites and songs linked by kinship, patterns of kinship, regional connubium, anthropological notes and detailed examination of world view, with a summary of previous research in the region. The work presents in beautiful colour maps, for the first time over 600 previously unrecorded sites of the seas, Galiwin\u2019ku and Crocodile islands.<\/p>\n
Born over a hundred years ago Baymarrwa\u014ba records stories of the old people, and of the stories they told, stories that explained the shape of the world and the origin of Yol\u014bu people. This work tells how people would live in the time before the coming of the briyanara\u014bu<\/em> (Europeans). A rich repository of photographs by Donald Thomson, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Lloyd W Warner, A. P Elkin, Edward (Ryko) Reichenbach and many more. Exquisitely designed by Therese Ritchie it is an unsurpassed monument of cross-cultural collaboration over 20 years in the making.<\/p>\n Michael Dodson proclaims \u201cIt is rare that I get the opportunity to write the foreword for a book that is both a part of history and a history in the making. The Yan-nha\u014bu atlas is such a text, representing a collation of the songs, stories, cosmologies, and deep ecological knowledge of the Crocodile Islands spanning countless eons.\u00a0 This is a history captured in language; language that is rich with links to ceremonial and magical sites, to ancient patterns of maritime travel and to a reservoir of knowledge about natural resources tested by time.\u201d Michael Dodson AM. 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[17],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}