 The first modern linguistic research on Nyungar was carried out by Gerhardt Laves on the variety known as "Goreng", near Albany in 1930, but this material was lost for many years and has only recently been recovered.Beginning in the 1930s and then more intensively in the 1960s Wilfrid Douglas learnt and studied Nyungar, eventually producing a grammar, dictionary, and other materials.More recently Nyungar people have taken a major role in this work as researchers, for example Rose Whitehurst who compiled the "Noongar Dictionary" in her work for the Noongar Language and Culture Centre.