Projects
Arrernte angkentye online provides an introduction to Eastern and Central Arrernte words. It has audio recordings of 750 Arrernte words organised alphabetically and in semantic domains. The website also has Arrerntele atantheme – Arrernte phonics, a resource for people who are learning to read and write in Arrernte. The aim is to help speakers learn to make connections between the sounds of Arrernte and the Arrernte alphabet.
The 50 words project aims to provide fifty words in every Indigenous language of Australia. The words are online with community permission, and with audio provided by a language speaker. You can hear Veronica Dobson, as the language speaker for Ikngerre-Ipenhe Arrernte (Eastern Arrernte). The languages and words are displayed on a map of Australia so that users can easily find the information relevant to their local area.
Veronica Perrurle Dobson and Joel Perrurle Liddle. Photographer? Date?
Indigemoji is a collective of artists, linguists, creative technologists and young people who first came together in 2018 to create an Arrernte set of emoji reflecting the traditional language of Mparntwe/Tyuretye in Central Australia. They come together every now and then to explore how some of the oldest languages in the world. and some of the newest, can be woven together.
Veronica chooses some utyerrke (wild fig) leaves to represent characters in a sand story. Photo by Jennifer Green
Veronica Dobson tells a sand story about tunnel ball games, Emily Gap, 2007; Veronica Dobson (with Josie Douglas) demonstrates string games, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, 2007. Video by Jennifer Green
As well as her knowledge of spoken languages, Veronica has expertise in forms of visual communication and storytelling, such as sand stories (tyepetye) and string games (arrwe-iltyingke). In 2007 she made some video recordings of these with linguist Jennifer Green.