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Dinky-di Aussies: how slanguage helped form a new national identity

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA new exhibition gives us an insight into the daily life – and language – of Australian soldiers in World War One. Courtesy of University of Melbourne Archives, University of Melbourne.

They called it slanguage. A unique language developed by soldiers on the front during World War One. It was a creative fusion of Australian slang, blue...

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The race to digitise language records of the Pacific region before it is too late

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imageJohn Z'graggen's tapes from Madang.Nick Thieberger, CC BY-NC-SA

A suitcase of reel-to-reel audio tapes arrived recently at the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. They were from Madang, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), were made in the 1960s and some contain the only known records of some of the languages of PNG.

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