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The Circle of Security – Language of Health and Wellbeing Project

A Collaboration with Ngak Min Health and Wik Mungkan Elders and Youth

Circle of Security is part of the Language for Life project, a collaboration with Ngak Min Health to develop Ancestral Language resources to support the health and wellbeing of Cape York Youth. Circle of Security interactive Augmented Reality posters present a series of written and spoken health statements developed by Wik Mungkan Elders and youth, with links to additional information and resources. This web version of the poster is still in progress. Audio and links for each statement will be uploaded soon.

1. Ngamp ma’ pathatham ngamparakam a’ wik wuut mangkantam a’ wik kath a’ malpa pi’amp kemp ngangk minak.

2.Puth wanch iimpanangan ke’ mungkan ngak karangk ya’a a’ wak way, minh minan epa a’ ngak yipmam kemp minaka.

3.Puk manyiyangan pam a’ wanch kampan min pi’ayn anan puth yipmam wik waa’ayn wee’an nath kaangk pam a’ wanch puk alangan ngangkangan pi’ayn yipmam wik waa’owant, yipmam nunangan ma’pathathayan.

4.Pam a’ wanchangan ma’ yumpayn oparakan puk manyiy akan, a’ wanchintha, a’ wuut ngamparaman, a’ ngamparakaman.

5. Puk nungkaramakan wik ngeeyan ngeenan waa’ayn. Wiy nint ngaantam ngeeyan ngeenaman mankul wunan pukan a’ ke’ piikow yimanangan. Ana puth than ngeenam pukan wayamanantan e’a? Thana pukan kuchek weechan ey?

6.Kampanangan mee’aathayn a’ ma’ aathayn yipmam ke’a weechow iiynguutan pi’antan. Pam a’ wanchangan ma’ yumpayn oparakan puk manyiy akan, wanchintha, wuut ngamparaman a’ ngampan: Diabetes, a’ chiik-thok, a’ ngangk iiynguut, a’ kongam iynguut, a’ iynguut yukway.

12.Ngangk wayan kuchan keny yuwak a’ pek aakak, a’ puth ngeenam ma’ a’ tha’an ke’a piikana. Ngangkang minam thee’ana mankul a’ ngangk wayan ke’a iiyan.

7. Ku’ an ngench thayan ngampar. Ngampan puth kemp minam pi’amp ku’an. Noyan Vet’an puth in pi’anamp, ngampan engkampant ku’an ma’ kaa’ yumpow.

Ku’angan wiy iynguut thak pi’antan a’ thuukay ku’antam thanang ngangk wayathan, a’ ngamp ku’ ngamparamantan thawamp yoon wunayn yipmam thanan yampang ke’a wunayn.

11. Ngamp koonh minam pi’amp. Ngamp puk ngamparaman ma’ aathamp koonhminam pi’ayn. Ngamp koonh an pi’amp thayanam a’ minminak yaamakam. Anputh ngamp puk manyiyak may ngak thaa’ min ke’a coca cola an thee’ amp a’ may thaa’ min yot mungkayn aniya puth koonhan wayamow a’ ontan wunow.

Ngantam ngeeyan ngeeyan/Konangam pekan:

Koonhan pungan ngaathiyangam a’ ngaa’ an uunthow ke’a weep wunan ngulan.

Ngak pach min pi’anam tapam mungkan.

Ya’ patham may thaa’ min a’ may ngak thaa’ min.

Niyan koonh niyantam a’ koonh puk maniyantam mee’ pathathow Dentistalangan ma’ kucham kepan thee’ow.

10.Nint ngantam ngeeyan ka’athangam. Nintan ma’aathan kampan a’ nungkarakaman thamp. Nil ngeen gambling, a’ ngak wayan a’ chiik wayan a’ palpuuyan pam a’ wanch wiy wiyantan iiyayn aniya puth ngangk way umpantan kampan.

9.Ngangk minan yaarkathamp a’ kaa’ min iiyamp. Kaath a’ piip a’ piny a’ kaalangan ngangk min a’ kaangk wunayn puk thantamak. Puk manyiy ngangk michmicham iiyayn wanchinth a’ wuut mangkantan thamp.

8.Kemp umpanam thathimp ananiya kankanam, ana nint thathin. Wench thaa’ kemp pekpekam aniya kankanaman nint ke’a thathin. Ngamp mee’pathathamp ngamparakam a’ weechanan wench thaa’an minam pi’an kemp pekpekaman.

English Translations

1. Caring for each other and keeping our connection with our ancestors, our stories, our languages and our culture helps to keep us all well and strong.

2. When she is pregnant, no alcohol, no drugs, only good nutritious food and water to prepare our bodies for new life.

3. Every child needs to have at least one safe person in their family, someone they can talk to and tell their troubles to, someone they can trust and rely on when they need help.

4. Adults need to take responsibility for organising regular health checks and vaccinations for our children, for our old people and for ourselves.

5. Listen to what your children are trying to tell you. Try to understand what is really going on inside them and think about why they are behaving in an angry or destructive way. Are they suffering? Are they sick?

6. A family needs to learn how to help each other to prevent, manage and treat chronic diseases. Some conditions that many of us suffer from are: Diabetes, smoking, heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer

7. Our dogs are important to us. We need to make sure they are healthy too. If we have a vet in the community we can ask them to come and do a health check for our dogs.

Dogs can carry diseases and parasites that can make us sick, so we can teach our dogs to stay outside the house and we should not let our dogs sleep on our beds.

8. A cut on your skin is real and you can see it. A hurt inside is also real, but you can’t see it. We need to care of ourselves to heal our wounds and we need to take care of the way we feel inside too.

9. Share respect and kindness. Mums, dads, aunties and uncles need to love and respect their children. Children need to learn to be kind and respectful of their elders too.

10. Take care of your family by taking care of yourself. Try to think first. Risky behaviours such as gambling, drinking, using drugs and having unprotected sex will hurt the people you love.

11. We need to take care of our teeth. We need to take special care of our children’s teeth! We need to keep our teeth healthy and strong for our whole lifetime. If we give the children sugary drinks like Coca-Cola and let them eat sweets, their teeth will rot away. Remember:

Brush your teeth every morning and every night before bed.

Drink plenty of clean water from the tap.

No sugary drinks and sweets.

Have your teeth and your children’s teeth checked by the dentist twice each year.

12. Send your anger and sorrow to the sky or into the ground, not through your fists or your feet. Never take it out on yourself or the people around you. Learn to breathe through your anger and frustration.

Listen ’n Talk in Wik Mungkan

Click here for Wik Mungkan Listen ‘n Talk

Listen ‘n Talk is a phrased-based app for language learning developed by Mark Richards and eLearn Australia. The Wik Mungkan Listen ‘n Talk app is a work in progress. Ultimately this app will become a complete learning guide for the language with recordings, illustrations, animations and games.