Kaurna Warra, the language of the people of the Adelaide Plains.
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After about 150 years since it was last spoken in a day-to-day context in early colonial South Australia, in the mid-1800s, the Kaurna language has come alive again and is used and taught at many places in Kaurna Country.
Featured Videos
The classic song 'I am Australian' is sung by the Year 2 Choir at Linden Park Primary School. The chorus is repeated in Kaurna language.
Kira and Emily Bain read Susan Hall’s Kaurna language version of ‘Who am I?’ : Ngana Ngai?
Kaurna kids and friends teach us the Heads, Shoulders , Knees & Toes song : “Mukarta, Kartaka, Mampa, Tidna”
Steve Gadlabarti Goldsmith and Taylor Tipu Power-Smith provide an insight into the Kaurna names of some places in and around Adelaide SA.
Children can learn to count to ten in Kaurna, with a little help from some starfish and KWP presenter Taylor Power-Smith.
Latest News
A new online hub has just been launched to help people learn Kaurna, the original language of the Adelaide Plains.
See BTN coverage of the official launch of our website.
Elaine Magias is a Kaurna Narangga woman and learning language wasn't so much something she wanted to do… it was something she NEEDED to do…
Listen to Elaine share some Kaurna words.
Only a few decades ago the Kaurna language was thought to be extinct. Adelaide's Kaurna people say it was only ever "sleeping".
Aboriginal languages making comeback through new training program and dictionaries.
21st February is International Mother Language Day, which is all about celebrating and protecting the world’s many languages.
BTN talks to 10-year-old Tiyana, who’s helping to protect the Kaurna language by teaching it to other kids on YouTube.
50 words of Kaurna have been included and voiced by Jack Buckskin on a new Indigenous language mapping project called 50words.online.
A new 50 cent coin featuring 14 Indigenous words for money on it has been minted to commemorate the International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Gadlabarti – the busy bee, the bee that does not sting.
The passing of great Kaurna language warrior, Dr Alitya Wallara Rigney.
Jack Buckskin has done some important learning and teaching in the Kaurna language. At a recent Reconciliation Week event, young language student and mentor Kira Bain spoke about what learning Kaurna language and culture from Jack has meant to her.
Meet Pirlta the Possum, Kurraka, the Magpie and Kuula the Koala. These little guys teach us some Kaurna language.