Terry Crowley and the story of the Anaiwan Aboriginal language

Last year I wrote a series of columns in the Armidale Express on Terry Crowley and the Anaiwan language spoken on the southern parts of the New England Tablelands.

The language was something of a mystery to linguists because it did not seem to be related to other Aboriginal languages. It was Crowley as a young postgraduate student who cracked at least part of the mystery by showing that it was related to coastal languages.

Moves are now underway to revive the language, something I covered briefly on Wednesday on my New England Australia blog in Australian National Indigenous Languages Convention - a New England perspective. There are two Facebook pages, one on the Anaiwan Language revival program itself, a second Friends of the Anaiwan Language Revival Program designed for non-Anaiwan people who want to support the campaign.

 The stories I wrote for the Express are on-line on this blog, but I thought that it would be helpful if I gathered them in a single place to make it easier to follow the story through. The columns are;
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Column one The man who cracked the Anaiwan code 

Column two Terry Crowley's hunt for traditional languages

Column three Northern Tableland's rich tapestry of traditional languages

Column four Pioneering Anaiwan language studies

Column five Unravelling the Anaiwan language mystery

Column six Voices of cultural landscape

Column seven Climate plays role in Aboriginal resettlement

Column eight Forming the unique Anaiwan language