00:00Oh, we're in my favourite place in the foothills of Kunanyi, that the Aboriginal community
00:09named Turekina Truwala.
00:13Turekina Truwala means mountain falls, mountain waterfalls, Turekina being the Palawa Kani
00:20word for waterfall, and Truwala is the Palawa Kani word for mountain.
00:28Tasmanian Aboriginal languages were the first languages to be spoken in Utuwita before invasion.
00:35With invasion and colonisation, my people's lives changed forever.
00:43Not one of us has grown up speaking our languages.
00:46You know, we were discouraged from speaking language and from practising culture.
00:52The Aboriginal community decided that it was time to revive language.
00:59Palawa Kani is a composite language that is retrieved from the journals of white people
01:07who wrote language down, and also from community knowledge.
01:12People have been here since the beginning of time, their stories are in country, their
01:20spirit are in country, and the language, including place names, comes from country
01:27and they've always been there.
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