330: Making Words for Miriwoong (featuring Knut Olawsky) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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Talking with Knut Olawsky of the Mirima Language Centre. Knut helps to make new words for the Miriwoong language. What goes into lexical creation for a living language? The Australian government is having another go at adding a language test to become a permanent resident of Australia. We talk about why this is discriminatory. Words of the Week: Freddish, doctor, jobbymoon

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