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Noun. [B1]

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“1991, Joshua Aaron Fishman Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 279, The availability and spread⟳ of an indigenous aggregative term for all Aborigines (Gooris/Kooris) is suggestive of a growing intergroup identity among them, over and above former and current ethnolinguistic demarcations. The term Goori/Kuri itself stems from the Southeastern coastal area, some 300 miles north of Sydney. Wurm and Hattori list ‘7?’ speakers for Kuri and ‘9??’ for the Yuin-Kuric grouping (10 dialects, all but three of which are extinct).”

“1996, Julie Janson, Gunjies, Act 2, Scene 3, in Black Mary and Gunjies: two plays, Aboriginal Studies Press⟳, →ISBN, page 131, JUNE: […] It’s born in you, your identity, I never lost mine. Goori spirituality, it’s always there. I was born with somethin’ […]”

“2002, John Henderson and David Nash, Language in Native Title, Aboriginal Studies Press⟳, →ISBN, page 49, While I do not have⟳ a lot of faith in the native title legislation's ability to deliver⟳ the goods for dispossessed and dislocated Goori communities like⟳ ours on the eastern seaboard, I am interested in how the process⟳ regards our languages in relation to claim⟳ hearings and judgements.”

“2006, Joshua Aaron Fishman, Nancy H. Hornberger, and Martin Pütz, Language Loyalty, Language Planning and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 144, Thus, a brochure inviting Gooris (more usually ‘Kooris’, an increasingly popular indigenous self-designation applying to and uniting all Aborigines and favored by some as a collective term to replace⟳ Aborigine/Aboriginal) to participate⟳ in a series of six weekly seminars about Bundjalung, a language of Southeast Australia that is now down to its last⟳ few speakers, […]”

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