{{Short description|Australian musicologist and linguist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2025}}
'''Myfany Turpin''' is an Australian professor of music and linguistics and associate dean of Indigenous strategy and services at the University of Sydney.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=People: Professor Myfany Turpin |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/about/our-people/academic-staff/myfany-turpin.html#collapseprofileresearchinterest |access-date=2025-10-13 |website=The University of Sydney}}</ref>
Turpin specialises in ethnomusicology, linguistics, anthropological linguistics and ethnobiology. One of her primary fields of interest is the relationship between language and music and ways to support of continuation and revival of traditional song and, more generally, performance arts.<ref name=":0" />
Turpin has primarily focused on the Kaytetye language from Central Australia and she has been working with Kaytetye people since 1996 and has published a series of learning guides, picture dictionaries and dictionaries of this language.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Myfany Turpin |url=https://www.ntwriters.com.au/landing/myfany-turpin/ |access-date=2025-10-13 |website=NT Writers' Centre |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2005 she completed her PhD on this topic: ''Form and meaning of Akwelye: a Kaytetye women's song series from Central Australia'' (2005).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Turpin |first=Myfany |date=2005 |title=Form and meaning of Akwelye : a Kaytetye women's song series from Central Australia |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1334 |access-date=2025-10-13 |website=The University of Sydney Library |hdl=2123/1334 }}</ref>
More recently, in 2023, Turpin supported Kaytetye communities in the creation of Kaytetyemoji, a set of Indigenous language emojis, which is part of the Indigemoji project. This project worked closely with the community and saw the creation of a total of 122 emojis including 44 specific to life of Kaytetye Country.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-04-19 |title=Only 110 people speak Kaytetye language — and it's hoped emojis will help keep it alive |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/emojis-immortalise-endangered-kaytetye-language-kaytetyemoji-app/102235682 |access-date=2025-10-29 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref> It also looked at how digital learning tools can support language revitalisation, assist in community resource development and embraced the communities existing multimodality. It did this by using symbolic art and drawing from Akitiri Sign Language.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lea |first1=Bridey |last2=Turpin |first2=Myfany |last3=Liddle Perrurle |first3=Joel |date=2025-01-01 |title=Melding language and image: Kaytetye Indigemoji as a language learning project |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2024.2320669 |journal=Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=16–32 |doi=10.1080/17501229.2024.2320669 |issn=1750-1229|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
However, in 2024, as a co-author of ''Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle'' (2024) Turpin focused on the Warlpiri language and worked closely alongside Henry Jakamarra. In this book Jakamarra sung the music while she undertook the rhythmic annotation for it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yuupurnju |url=https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/9781743329481 |access-date=2025-10-13 |website=Sydney University Press |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-16 |title=Q&A with Carmel O'Shannessy and Myfany Turpin, co-authors of Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle |url=https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/blogs/news/q-a-with-carmel-o-shannessy-and-myfany-turpin-co-authors-of-yuupurnju-a-warlpiri-song-cycle |access-date=2025-10-13 |website=Sydney University Press |language=en}}</ref>
== Selected publications == * [https://www.amazon.com.au/Growing-Up-Kaytetye-Kngwarraye-Thompson/dp/1864650494 Turpin], M. (2000). [https://www.iadpress.com.au/products/a-learners-guide-to-kaytetye ''A Learner's Guide to Kaytetye''.] Alice Springs, NT: IAD Press. * Turpin, M. (2003). ''[https://australianartnetwork.com.au/shop/art-books/kaytetye-picture-dictionary/ Kaytete Picture Dictionary]''. Alice Springs: IAD Press. * Turpin, M. (2003). [https://www.amazon.com.au/Growing-Up-Kaytetye-Kngwarraye-Thompson/dp/1864650494 ''Growing Up Kaytetye: Stories by Tommy Kngwarraye Thompson''.] Alice Springs: Jukurrpa books: an imprint of IAD Press. * Turpin, M., Nangala Ross, A. (2012). ''[https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:269237 Kaytetye to English Dictionary]''. Alice Springs: IAD Press. * Turpin, M., Nangala Ross, A. (2013). ''[https://batchelorpress.com/node/257 Antarrengeny Awely. Alyawarr women's traditional ceremony of Antarrengeny country]''. Darwin: Batchelor Press. * Meakins, F., Green, J., Turpin, M. (2018). [https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62527/1/9781351330114.pdf ''Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork''.] Oxon: Routledge. * {{cite Q|Q136673277| title= Songs from the Stations. Wajarra as sung by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri}} * Santo, W., Anderson, A., Nancarrow, C., Turpin, M. (2023). ''[https://shop.aiatsis.gov.au/products/yaru Yaru! Gudjal learner's guide and dictionary]''. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. * Jakamarra, H., Jangala, J., Japanangka, S., Jampijinpa, W., O'Shannessy, C., Turpin, M. (2024). [https://newsouthbooks.com.au/books/yuupurnju-a-warlpiri-song-cycle/ ''Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle''.] Sydney: Sydney University Press.
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