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Otto Jungarrayi Sims Otto Jungarrayi Sims i(A107210 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Warlpiri
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1 Six Decades, 210 Warlpiri Speakers and 11,000 Words: How a Groundbreaking First Nations Dictionary Was Made Carmel O'Shannessy , Jane Simpson , Otto Jungarrayi Sims , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 25 May 2023;
— Review of Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary Mary Laughren , 2022 reference

'The first large dictionary of the Warlpiri language began in 1959 in Alice Springs, when Yuendumu man †Kenny Wayne Jungarrayi and others started teaching their language to a young American linguist, Ken Hale.' (Publication summary)
1 An Arrangement Tim Japangardi , Mary Laughren , Otto Jungarrayi Sims (translator), 1991 extract prose (Social History of the Northern Territory : Spoken, Written and Photographed by Those Who Took Part)
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 97)
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