I used Scratch to make a tiny multimedia dictionary (voice, pictures, words) for the Australian indigenous Alyawarre or Alyawarra language. It's available here. Three girls from wiltja provided the words and their voices. Alyawarre tribe is near Tennant Creek.
- kungar = blue tongue lizard
- numa = snake
- loget = goanna
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Hi Bill,
I'm in Japan at the moment, but I'm due back in Cooma (NSW) to teach Japanese in February.
What would you think of a remix of your Scratch program so that it includes three languages?
English - Alyawarre - Japanese
blue tongue - kungar - aojita tokage
snake - luma - hebi
goanna - loget - ootokage
Kevin Kirton
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