University of Melbourne, 2020. — 611 p. Mangarla is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Marrngu subgroup, originally spoken in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. Today, the language is severely endangered with a small number of speakers living in disparate communities outside of traditional lands. This work describes the core grammatical features of Mangarla and examines...
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2016. — 401 p.
This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga...
Department of Linguistics, SOAS, 2013. — 265 p. Diyari is a Pama-Nyungan language of eastern South Australia. Like most Australian languages it is a suffixing language with fairly complex nominal and verbal morphology.
La Trobe University, 1993. — 96 p. The Gamilaraay people (or Kamilaroi as the name is more commonly spelled) have been known and studied for over one hundred and sixty years, but as yet no detailed account of their language has been available. This book is intended as a descriptive reference grammar of the Gamilaraay language of north-central New South Wales. The aim has been to...
Department of Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, 2015. — 106 p. The Mantharta languages are a group of four Aboriginal languages traditionally spoken in the north-west of Western Australia. They are Jiwarli, Thiin, Warriyangka and Tharrkari. The languages are closely related genetically, although they show some interesting structural and lexical differences. All four...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — xiii + 223 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 544). Account of Warrnambool language of the Western District of Victoria, based on early sources; intended as reference for Aboriginal people of the area and for researchers; the language and its speakers; phonology; grammar; English-Warrnambool and...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1979. — xii + 210 p. The Kalkatungu (or Kalkadoons as they are generally called) inhabited an area that embraces the present day towns of Mt. Isa and Cloncurry in western Queensland. It is classified as the sole member of the "Kalkatungic group" of the Pama-Nyungan family.
La Trobe University, 2011. — 204 p. This book presents a consolidated account from scattered sources collected in the nineteenth century on the southern and eastern dialects of Western Kulin, namely Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung and Djadjawurrung. The Kulin languages covered most of central and western Victoria. On the basis of grammatical and lexical forms three Kulin languages can be...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2011. — 345 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 628). On the basis of similarities in vocabulary and grammar we can determine that in most of central and western Victoria plus areas of adjacent states, a group of closely related languages was spoken, a group that Schmidt (1919) termed the ‘Kulin languages’....
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — ix + 225 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 549). This book is a consolidated account of the extinct Bunganditj language of south-eastern South Australia and adjacent areas of western Victoria based on early sources. It is intended to serve as a convenient reference for Bunganditj people and for...
University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. — 183 p. — (Oceanic linguistics special publication 30). Nhanda is a language of Western Australia, once spoken along a coastal strip 20-100 kilometers wide from present-day Geraldton north to the Murchison River. Nhanda is one of the least studied Aboriginal languages of Western Australia and is currently on the verge of extinction. Nhanda is...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1999. — xiv + 299 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 154). Yorta Yorta is the name now used to refer to the group of closely related languages traditionally spoken by the people who lived in an area extending from the junction of the Murray and the Goulburn Rivers in present-day northeast Victoria. Although the language...
The Australian National University, 2007. — xii + 132 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 584). Yalarnnga is a language from Dajarra and country to its east, in far western Queensland . This grammar presents all that could be learnt by the authors from their work with the last three aged speakers, two of whom spoke it only as a second language. Typologically Yalarnnga is a fairly typical...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 264 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 558). Innamincka Talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the...
Canberra, Australia: ANU eView, The Australian National University, 2004 (2015). — xviii + 245 p. — ISBN: 9781921934193; 9781921934209. Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the...
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2015. — 178 p.
The work of the German missionaries on South Australian languages in the first half of the nineteenth century has few contemporary parallels for thoroughness and clarity. This commentary on the grammatical introduction to Pastor Clamor Schürmann’s Vocabulary of the Parnkalla language of 1844 reconstructs a significant...
University of Queensland Press, 1969. — 54 p. Brief grammatical sketch and vocabulary of Yugumbir, an extinct dialect of Bandjalang formerly spoken in the Logan and Albert River basins in southeastern Queensland.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1994. — 408 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 125). Martuthunira is an Australian language of the Pama-Nyungan family. Originally spoken by the peoples inhabiting the coastal plain between the Robe and Fortescue rivers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the language now has (as this book goes to...
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
Date: 1995
Pages: 381
A description of the Australian Aboriginal language, Martuthunira. The language is no extinct, the last fluent speaker having died in 1995.
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 497 p. R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the language, extending and refining the descriptions in light of more...
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 452 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 9). — ISBN10: 0521097487; ISBN13: 978-0521097482. Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2010. — 141 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 612). ‘The handle lies in pieces on the eastern side…and we see the stone which it formed there still.’ (Budderer’s Rock, as told by Kevin O’Loughlin) The story of Budderer, a Dreaming trail which encompasses the entire length of Narungga land (Yorke Peninsula, South...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 795 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 92). As spoken by F. Tjama, M. Yinjuru Bumblebee, D. Mungkirna Rockman, P. Yalurrngali Rockman, Y. Nampijin, D. Yujuyu Nampijin, M. Mandigalli, K. Padoon, P. P. Napangardi, P. Lee, N. Japaljarri, M. Moora, M. Mudgedell and P. Smith Ngardi is a highly endangered language with fewer than 10 remaining speakers and is no...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 796 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 92). Ngardi is a highly endangered language with fewer than 10 remaining speakers and is no longer being acquired by children. Despite the limited circulation of a draft dictionary (Cataldi, 2011), there has been no published reference grammar of this language. Upon publication, this work will constitute the most...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 520 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 74). This grammar offers a comprehensive description of Kuuk Thaayorre, a Paman language spoken on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. The Paman languages of Cape York have long been recognized for their exhibition of considerable phonological, semantic and morphosyntactic change (e.g. Hale 1964, Dixon...
Parkville: University of Melbourne, 2006. — XX, 649 p.
This thesis is a comprehensive description of Kuuk Thaayorre, a Paman language spoken on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. On the basis of elicited data, narrative and semi-spontaneous conversation recorded between 2002 and 2005, this grammar details the phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexical and...
The Australian National University, 2011. — xi + 102 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 624). There are no longer any speakers of the West Australian Aboriginal language Malgana who have any degree of fluency, and the series of analyses in this report are based on data from audio tapes made in the middle of the last decade of the 20th century, as well as various written materials...
ANU Press, 2020. — xviii + 290 p. The Gamilaraay language declined in use for many years after the colonisation of Australia. From around 1990, Gamilaraay people and others have been working to revive the language. This book draws on recent research into previous records and analyses of Gamilaraay and of the closely related, and better recorded, Yuwaalaraay. It provides an...
Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1985. — 434 p. — ISBN 0-949659-32-0 Full title "A Semantically oriented Grammar of the Yankunytjatjara dialect of The Western Desert Language" This is a reference grammar of the Yankunytjatjara dialect of the Western-Desert Language as spoken at Mimili in South Australia. The Yankunytjatjara are one of many Aboriginal groups comprising a...
IAD Press, 2005. 106 p.
ISBN: 978-1864650815
Eastern and Central Arrernte are strong languages, spoken every day by about 2000 people in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) and other communities in Central Australia. For Arrernte people, their language is important in a way that goes beyond straightforward communication; it links them with their family,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 348 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 67). This is an outline description of Southern Bagandji, as once spoken on the lower Darling River, with notes on other Bagandji dialects and short texts. The work is the outcome of many years of acquaint ance and friendship with Bagandji people. It was in...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1994. — xx + 344 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 128). Arabana is a critically endangered language of the Pama–Nyungan family. Historically it belonged to the area to the west and north of Lake Eyre. In the eyes of the speakers, though not technically, there are really two languages: Arabana...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1999. — xxii + 239 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 150). Wirangu is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama-Nyungan family traditionally spoken on the west coast of South Australia. It is most closely related to the Thura–Yura group of Australian Aboriginal languages. Since 2004 a Wirangu...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1976. — vii + 109 p. This study is divided into two parts with the hope that it will be of more use that way. Part One contains general information about the people and languages of the Fitzroy Crossing area and is therefore a suitable introduction to anyone new to the region. Part Two is a fairly detailed description of the Walmatjari language and...
The Australian National University, 2011. — xxxiii + 364 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 636). Wangkajunga is a member of a large group of languages now known collectively as the Western Desert language. The speakers of these languages traditionally occupied vast tracts of land in the centre of the western part of the continent. In the first chapter relationships between groups of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1977. — 316 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 52). Wik-Munkan is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northwest Queensland, on the western side of the Great Dividing Range on Cape York Peninsula. This description is primarily concerned with the means available to a Wik-Munkan speaker to present and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — xiv + 216 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 131). Yanyuwa is a critically endangered Pama-Nyungan language spoken by around 100 people in the Gulf of Carpentaria region of Australia's Northern Territory. Like many other Australian Aboriginal languages, Yanyuwa is a complex agglutinative...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1969. — 64 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 12). The Thargari tribe used to live in the area roughly comprising present-day Williambury, Moogooree, Mangaroon, and Minnie Creek sheep stations in Western Australia. This area lies on the Tropic of Capricorn, about one hundred miles northeast of Carnarvon,...
Publisher: Lad Press Date: 1996 Pages: 224 Language: Warlpiri Audio A Learner's Guide to Warlpiri: Wangkamirlipa Warlpirilki is built around a course of taped language lessons which were prepared and recorded by Professor Kenneth Hale and Robin Japanangka Granites at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 1976. It is the voice of Robin Japanangka Granites of...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1979. — x + 120 p. Wangkumara is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the widespread Pama–Nyungan family, formerly spoken in Queensland. Wangkumara is entirely suffixing and morphologically fairly simple. It has the following word classes: nominal (noun and pronoun), verb, particle and interjection. Word order...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 778 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 91). As spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup which forms a part of the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 778 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 91). Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding nasals. It also...
Mouton De Gruyter, 2014. — xxxiii + 525 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 640). This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The materials on which this...
Publisher: Grace Koch
Publication date: 1995
Number of pages: 134
ISBN: 09496959754
Warlpiri one of the native languages of Australia.
Warlpiri Women's Voices is a collection of narratives concerning the lives of a number of senior Warlpiri women from Wirliyajarrayi (Willowra), on the Lander River, in the Northern Territory of Australia. The speakers are Molly Nungarrayi,...
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publication date: 1980
Number of pages: 255
The Warlpiri language is spoken by about 3000 of the Warlpiri people in Australia's Northern Territory. It is one of the Ngarrkic languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family, and is one of the largest aboriginal languages in Australia in terms of number of speakers.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — xxiv + 439 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 108). Muruwari is an extinct Pama-Nyungan language formerly spoken in southern Queensland and north-west New South Wales. Grammatically, the language is entirely suffixing, with a full case system of nominative, absolutive, ergative, locative,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1990. — 302 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 111). At the time of the European incursion into Australia two hundred years ago, seven-eighths of the continent was occupied by speakers of the Pama-Nyungan languages. The Pama-Nyungan family extended from Saibai Island in Torres Strait 3,700km south-west to...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — xx + 250 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 527). Kuku Yalanji, spoken in the area between Mossman and Cooktown in North Queensland, is still a living language. Only about two score of the original 250 distinct Australian Aboriginal languages are still learned by children; Kuku Yalanji is one of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 453 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 556). This book is a description of the Nyangumarta language spoken by several hundred marrngu 'people' in the north-west of Western Australia. The description is based on material which the author collected between 1983 and 1997. The book includes...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2006. — 266 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 582). This book examines the interface between language and kinship in the Australian Aboriginal language Kunjen which is spoken in the Cape York region of northern Queensland. The author shows that kinship relations play a major role in determining the kinds of linguistic...
Batchelor Press, 2015. — 28 p. The original guide was written and compiled by Lois Spehn-Jackson as part of her ongoing contribution to the Noongar Language Project as a Language Consultant. In this second edition there have been numerous additions and changes to meet the needs of Noongar language revival with inclusion of and reference to the Noongar dialects and a grammar...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — viii, 510 p. — (History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 8; ISSN 2629-172X). — ISBN 978-3-96110-488-8. A substantial proportion of what is discoverable about the structure of many Aboriginal languages spoken on the vast Australian continent before their decimation through colonial invasion is contained in nineteenth-century...
ANU Press, 2024. — 302 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics). Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka ‘work’ comes from the Yagara verb yaga ‘to work’. However, no fluent native speakers of Yagara remain. The current volume...
Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. — 300 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics). Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka ‘work’ comes from the Yagara verb yaga ‘to work’. However, no fluent native speakers of Yagara remain. The current...
Papers presented to the Linguistic Symposium, Part B, held in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial General Meeting, May, 1974. — Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. — X, 314 p. Most of the papers in this volume were presented during a symposium on the Aboriginal languages of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — xii + 209 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 78). This volume is a synchronic descript ion of the Djaru language, a Ngumpin (Pama–Nyungan) language spoken in Kimberley, Western Australia.
Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — 751 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 53). — ISBN-10 3110238764; ISBN-13 978-3110238761. Warrongo is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that used to be spoken in northeast Australia. This volume is largely based on the rich data recorded from the last fluent speaker. It details the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language. In...
Lincom Europa, 1998. — 100 p. This work presents a salvage grammar of the Biri language of Eastern Central Queensland, a Pama-Nyungan language belonging to the large Maric subgroup. As the language is no longer used, the grammatical description is based on old written sources and on recordings made by linguists in the 1960s and 1970s. Biri is in many ways typical of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 118 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 525). Dharumbal is the language associated with the area around Rockhampton, in eastern Queensland. Structurally, Dharumbal is in many ways typical of what are generally known as Pama-Nyungan languages. It is particularly notable in the extreme conservatism of...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1988. — xii + 147 p. Kuuku Ya'u and Umpila have their few remaining speakers mainly at the Lockhart River Aboriginal Community on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. They are closely related coastal dialects and are also close to the inland dialect of Kaantju. These three dialects are classified as members of the Middle Pama...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 428 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 648). This is a grammar and lexicon of Yintyingka, an extinct Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. The author analyzes the language based on the surviving data and knowledge of related languages.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 428 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 648). This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 432 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 648). This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 204 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 99). Of all the Aboriginal languages in western Australia with which I became acquainted during ten years ( 1964-74) of linguistic studies, under the auspices of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Nyungar in the south-west held the greatest...
Publisher: Wangka Maya
Date: 2007
Pages: 72
Language:English/Ngarla
In this thesis the basic grammatical structure of normal speech style of the Western Australian language Ngarla is described using example sentences taken from the Ngarla – English Dictionary (by Geytenbeek; unpublished). No previous description of the language exists, and since there are only five people...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980. — viii + 208 p. This study is concerned with Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaaliyaay, two closely related dialects from the north-central region of New South Wales. Yuwaalaraay is a typical Australian language. It is a suffixing language with free word order. Pronouns distinguish singular, dual and plural in the first, second and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — xiv + 403 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 71). This is a grammar of Yindjibarndi, a Pama–Nyungan language spoken by approximately 300 people in the Pilbara region of north-western Australia.
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