Wanyjirra
The Wandjira were an
indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory
.
Language
Their
Wanyjirra language,[1] now moribund, is one of the Ngumbin languages.[2] Tasaku Tsunoda made some early recordings of their speech, and these, together with fieldwork materials she gathered as a postgraduate student of Nick Evans, were the basis of a full descriptive published by Chikako Senge in 2015.[3] Many Wandkora also spoke the closely related Standard Eastern Gurindji and conversations between these groups would often involve code-switching.[4]
Country
upper Negri River.[5]
History of contact
The surviving remnants of the Wandjira now live mainly around Inverway Station, and also Birrindudu Station on the edge of the Tanami Desert.[5]
Alternative names
Some words
- cudibah. (whiteman)[7]
Notes
Citations
- ^ McGregor 2013, p. 31.
- ^ McGregor 2013, p. 44.
- ^ Senge 2015.
- ^ McConvell 1988, pp. 113ff..
- ^ a b c d Tindale 1974, p. 237.
- ^ Berndt & Berndt 1946, pp. 72, n.17, 75, n.39.
- ^ a b Terry 1926, p. 194.
Sources
- JSTOR 40328097.
- McConvell, Patrick (1988). "Mix-Im-Up: Aboriginal codeswitching, old and new". In Heller, Monica (ed.). Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. ISBN 978-3-110-84961-5.
- ISBN 978-1-134-39602-3.
- Senge, Chikako (2015). A Grammar of Wanyjirra, a language of Northern Australia (PDF). Australian National University.
- JSTOR 2787434.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wandjira (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.