Jane Simpson

Jane Kartanya Simpson, a non-Aboriginal woman, studied Linguistics at the Australian National University in 1975-76 where she undertook a major assignment on the Kaurna language, tracking down old sources. She has taken a keen interest in Kaurna and other closely related Thura-Yura languages ever since. In 1991 she made the handwritten Teichelmann (1857) Kaurna wordlist available in typescript and electronic form. Jane, a linguist, has worked closely with Rob Amery over the years in interpreting historical records of the Kaurna language. She supervised Rob's PhD project in the mid-1990s and has collaborated closely in the production of Kulurdu Marni Ngathaitya!, writing Chapters 21 and 24.