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...
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...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2003. — ix + 225 p. 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 all researchers.
University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. — 183 p. 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 unique among languages in this area in...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1999. — xiv + 299 p. 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 hasn't been spoken since the 1960s,...
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.
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...
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...
Publisher: Institute for Aboriginal Development Date: 1985 Pages: 434 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...
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 acquaintance and friendship with the Bagandji people. It was in...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1994. — xx + 344 p. 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 and Wangkangurru. For the most part, these are mutually...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1999. — xxii + 239 p. 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 language revitalization program has been underway. As...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1996. — xiv + 216 p. 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 language with ergative case marking whose grammar is pervaded by...
Publisher: Lad Press Date: 1996 Pages: 224 Language: Warlpiri 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 Yuendumu,...
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...
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, Rosie...
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.
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1988. — xxiv + 439 p. 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, instrumental, dative, elative and allative cases. All the...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002. — xx + 250 p. 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 them, although its use as the main means 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 marriage 'people' in the northwest of Western Australia. The description is based on material which the author collected between 1983 and 1997. The book includes...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1981. — xii + 209 p. 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. — ISBN10: 3110238764; ISBN13: 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 particular, it provides a truly scrutinizing...
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...
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.
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 who...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1982. — xiv + 403 p. 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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