What does a 50,000 year old language sound like?
On the brink of extinction, a young women decides to keep her language alive by sharing it with the world.
We welcome you to hear and speak
My Grandmother's Lingo.
Help keep it alive!
Angelina Joshua (pictured above), a young Aboriginal woman from Ngukurr, in the Northern Territory of Australia. The 28 year old is a woman on a mission: to teach, share and preserve the Indigenous language of her people - Marra.
Together with indigenous creatives Jake Duczynski (animator) and Kuren (music producer), the trio have bound together to preserve the Marra language. Through an interactive online documentary produced by television network SBS, it combines voice-activated gaming technology with unique animations and soundscapes to unlock the chapters in Angelina’s story.
Her voice guides participants through a sensory-rich tour of her native language, Marra, now spoken fully fluently by only three elders in her community.
It was pretty cool when I first learned my first sentence… My dad if he would’ve been alive and my grandmother, they would have been over the clouds. ‘Gosh, my baby girl can speak Marra’. It’s an amazing feeling.
- Angelina Joshua