Location: Goddard Creek south to Israelite Bay and Port Macolm; west to Fraser Range; east to Naretha; west of Point Culver; at Mount Andrew, Russell Range, Balladonia and Norseman.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Bardojunga
Marlpa
Ngatju
Ngatjunmaya
Wangka-malpa
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Mirniny
Identification codes:AIATSIS:A.03
Capell (1963):A.25
Oates (1975):55.1b
3. Dialects of the language:
None known
4. Number and distribution of speakers:
A few speakers at Norseman and Esperance
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Carl-Georg von Brandenstein (1969-70)
6. Practical spelling system:
Brandenstein uses an etymological system with diacritics; the Western Desert orthography would be suitable.
7. Word lists:
Bates (n.d.54, n.d.71, n.d.89, n.d.90)
Brandenstein (1980)
Brandenstein (1982a)
Helms (1896)
8. Texts:
Brandenstein (1980)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Brandenstein (1980)
10. Language programmes:
None
11. Language learning material:
None
12. Literature in the language:
None
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Bates, D.M. (1924) 'Was she 107?: death of Nory Ann', in the Western Mail, 11 December 1924.
Bates, D.M. (1926) 'Poems of palaeolithic man', pp.49-50 in the Australasian, 2 January 1926.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.16) Myths and legends - Central Australia, typescript copy of MS, Section 7, ANL-MS365-26/2-48.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.54) Native vocabularies - Fraser Range, MS, Section 12, 2A, ANL-MS365-39/280-288.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.71) Native vocabularies - Miscellaneous, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2A, ANL-MS365-39/216-229.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.89) Native vocabularies - Norseman Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2C, ANL-MS365-47/29-32.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.90) Native vocabularies - Norseman, Dundas Magisterial District, MS; book; Section 12, 2C: 5, ANL-MS365-47/128.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.153) Tribal organisation and geographical distribution; Tribes of South-West Australia, typescript copy of MS, Section 2, ANL-MS365-3/2-65.
Brandenstein, C. G. von (1970f) Report [to AIAS] on fieldwork conducted July- August 1970 as part of the 1969-70 project Western Desert Fringe study, Nedlands, WA.
Brandenstein, C. G. von (1971b) Report to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies on fieldwork conducted September-December 1970 as part of the 1969-70 project Western Desert Fringe study, Nedlands, WA.
Brandenstein, C. G. von (1972a) Linguistic routine report, January 1972.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1980) Ngadjumaja: an Aboriginal language of south-east Western Australia, Institut fźr Sprachwissenshaft der UniversitŠt Innsbruck, Innsbruck.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1982a) Eighty-eight grammar text sheets, exemplifying grammatical, lexical and phraseological diversities as well as links of 25 Aboriginal languages from Western Australia, ts.
Douglas, W.H. (1957) 'Ngatjil', fieldnotes collected from Eileen Flynn (Jacobs), 13 October 1957, ts.
Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1893) Journal of the Elder Scientific Expedition, 1891-2, under command of D. Lindsay..., Bristow, Adelaide.
Helms, R. (1896) 'Anthropology', pp.237-332 in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol.16.
McConvell, P. (1983) 'Review of C.G. von Brandenstein's (1980) Ngadjumaja', p.193 in Oceania, Vol.53.
Nash, D. (1982a) 'Review of C.G. von Brandenstein's (1980) Ngadjumaja: an Aboriginal language of south-east Western Australia', pp.270-276 in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.2, no.2.
Tindale, N.B. (1939c) Vocabulary no.86, Ngadjunma, Australian vocabularies, MS.
Tindale, N.B. (1981) Desert Aborigines and the southern coastal peoples: some comparisons, MS.
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