{"id":2141,"date":"2018-07-02T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T01:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/product\/wangka-wiru-handbook\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:59:21","slug":"wangka-wiru-handbook","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/product\/wangka-wiru-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangka Wiru Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are \u2018Learner Guides\u2019 available for a range of Aboriginal languages but none that I have seen come anywhere near the depth, thoroughness and structural logic of <em>Wangku Wiru<\/em>. The conclusions state that it is \u2018designed to give some basic information about the language\u2019 which should \u2018help in the task of communicating with Pitjantjatjara speakers\u2019 (p277).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn <em>Wangku Wiru<\/em> basic technical terms are explained and concretely illustrated in a directly useful manner.<\/p>\n<p>This work is an excellent reference for the serious learner with access to Pitjantatjara speakers and an extremely useful resource to other more technical works on Western Desert languages.\u201d <em>[Extract of a review by David Price, published in <\/em>Australian Aboriginal Studies 1989 \/ No. 2<em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Rotary Verb Wheel<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/product\/rotary-verb-wheel-pitjantnatnara\/\">(click here)<\/a>\u00a0A companion to this guide will assist in the understanding of the four verb classes in Pitjantjatjara and within each class the two kinds of verbs &#8211; \u2018Verbs-of-effect\u2019 (transitive) or \u2018Verbs-without-object\u2019 (intransitive).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are \u2018Learner Guides\u2019 available for a range of Aboriginal languages but none that I have seen come anywhere near the depth, thoroughness and structural logic of Wangku Wiru. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2043,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216,215],"product_tag":[281],"class_list":{"0":"post-2141","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-indigenous","7":"product_cat-language","8":"product_tag-paul-eckert-joyce-hudson","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"group_of_quantity":0,"min_quantity":0,"max_quantity":"","exclude_order_quantity_value_rules":"no","exclude_category_quantity_rules":"no","combine_variations":"no","acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbookhowden.com.au\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}