{"id":3838,"date":"2009-09-17T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/09\/anindilyakwa-number-book-elizabeth-caldwell\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"anindilyakwa-number-book-elizabeth-caldwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/09\/anindilyakwa-number-book-elizabeth-caldwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Anindilyakwa Number Book &#8211; Elizabeth Caldwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/anindilyakwa-number-IMG_NEW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"anindilyakwa-number-IMG_NEW.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/anindilyakwa-number-IMG_NEW-thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe sold out of the first printing quick as a  flash with just local orders, so now we have re-printed and we have  plenty to meet international demand (ha!) if the need should arise.<br \/>\nThe book is simple and aimed mainly at parents or schools who wish to  teach young people how to count to 20 in Anindilyakwa, however it is  a vibrant and charming book that will open up to newcomers  some of the delightful features of the language.  For instance, the range of  noun classes, and the mathematical precision of language structures.<br \/>\nBesides provoking the reader to deep thoughts about counting,  the reader will enjoy being put in touch with the bush foods of the  Groote Eylandt area through the many photos.<br \/>\nThe book gained instant notoriety when the first printing arrived,  coming almost to the day at the same time as the southern newspapers  were heralding some research done with children on Groote Eylandt,<br \/>\nresearch which &#8220;demonstrated&#8221; that in languages where there were no  words for counting more than one, two, and many, children still had a  concept of counting in greater quantities.<br \/>\nPity they picked on  Groote Eylandt, where people do have words for numbers up to twenty.   Children would have watched as women traditionally divided out  collected turtle eggs into groups.  True, a five year old may not   have been taught to count yet, but on the days royalty money comes  around they watch as the adults divide out their share, and numbers  have an important function in daily life.<br \/>\nThere are 54 pages, card cover, full colour, lots of photos, some  word glossaries in the back, and even a few puzzles to test out what  you can learn from your reading.<br \/>\nCost:   $25.00 each plus freight.<br \/>\nAvailable from Groote Eylandt Linguistics, Angurugu Community Mail<br \/>\nAgency, Angurugu via Darwin, Northern Territory, 0822<br \/>\nEmail:   linguistics AT activ8.net.au<br \/>\nPhone: 08 8987 6614 or 08 8927 1842<br \/>\nMobile: 0439 827 073<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sold out of the first printing quick as a flash with just local orders, so now we have re-printed and we have plenty to meet international demand (ha!) if the need should arise. The book is simple and aimed mainly at parents or schools who wish to teach young people how to count to &#8230; <a title=\"Anindilyakwa Number Book &#8211; Elizabeth Caldwell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/09\/anindilyakwa-number-book-elizabeth-caldwell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anindilyakwa Number Book &#8211; Elizabeth Caldwell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-australia-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4208,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}