4.2.2 BIBBULMAN

4.2.2 Bibbulman

Location: Lower Blackwood River, chiefly on the hills between the Blackwood and Warren Rivers, inland to Manjimup and Bridgetown.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Beebulmun
Bibalman (Capell)
Bibbulmun (Bates)
Meeraman
Peopleman
Pi.belmen (Tindale)
Pibelman
Pipelman (Douglas)
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Nyungar
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.01
Capell (1963):W.04
Oates (1975):54.1d
3. Dialects of the language:
None
4. Number and distribution of speakers:
Few or none
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
No one
6. Practical spelling system:
A system is in use by the Bunbury Nyungar group that is applicable to all Nyungar languages.
7. Word lists:
Davis (n.d.)
Gifford (1886b)
Graham (1886)
O'Grady (1957-58)
8. Texts:
None
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Douglas (1968)
10. Language programmes:
The Bunbury Nyungar group is developing a Nyungar language programme that will be applicable to all Nyungar languages.
11. Language learning material:
See entry under 10, above.
12. Literature in the language:
Douglas (1982)
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Bates, D.M. (1923) 'Tribus du Sud-Ouest de l'Australie; traduit de l'anglais par Maurice Delafosse', pp.225-240 in Revue d'Ethnographie, Vol.4.
Bates, D.M. (1926) 'Poems of palaeolithic man', pp.49-50 in the Australasian, 2 January 1926.
Bates, D.M. (1927b) 'Woolberr: the last of the black swan group', in the Australasian, 3 May 1927.
Bates, D.M. (1930) 'Woggal, the serpent healer', in the Australasian, 26 April 1930.
Bates, D.M. (1933) 'The tree of souls : legend of the Christmas bush', West Australian, 21 January 1933.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.7) Geographical distribution (early notes), typescript copy of MS, Section 2: 2c, ANL-MS365-3/150-164.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.9) Geographical distribution of the northern and southern groups of Western Australia, typescript copy of MS, Section 2: 2a, ANL-MS365-3/67-129.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.20) Myths and legends - South-Western WA (additional), typescript of MS, Section 7, ANL-MS365-25/2-252.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.32) Native vocabularies - Busselton, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-46/45-88.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.111) Native vocabularies - South-West - Miscellaneous, typescript copy of MS, ANL-MS365-46/15-34.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.122) Native vocabularies - Williams Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-41/98-131.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.129) Outline of grammar [2] - Pronouns, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 1, ANL-MS365-37/43-97.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.132) Social organisation - Class divisions - Western Australia, typescript copy of MS, Section 3, ANL-MS365-12/115-127.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.136) Social organisation - Relationship terms, typescript copy of MS, Section 3, ANL-MS365-14/2-111.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.137) Social organisation - Sex history of Australian Aborigines, typescript copy of MS, Section 3, ANL-MS365-14/231-254.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.138) Social organisation - South-Western West Australia, typescript copy of MS, Section 3, ANL-MS365-12/2-65.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.141) Songs, dances, etc. - Additional collection of songs, typescript copy of MS, Section 3a(ii), ANL-MS365-36/35-66.
Bennell, E. and A.Thomas (1981) Aboriginal legends from the Bibulmun tribe, Rigby, Adelaide.
Bennett, E., P. Bindon and P. McKay (n.d.) Plants used by south-western Aboriginals, WA Museum leaflet.
Chesson, K. (1978) 'The problem of non-standard English', pp.38-39 in Aboriginal and Islander Identity, Vol.3, no.5..
Davis, J. (1970) The first born and other poems, Angus and Robertson, Sydney.
Davis, J. (n.d.) A glossary of the Bibbulmum language, ts.
Douglas, W.H. (1968b) The Aboriginal languages of South-West Australia: speech forms in current use and a technical description of Nyungar, Australian Aboriginal Studies no 14, Linguistic Series no.4, AIAS, Canberra.
Douglas, W.H. (1976b) The Aboriginal languages of the South-West of Australia, Australian Aboriginal Studies Research and Regional Studies no 9, AIAS, Canberra.
Douglas, W.H. (1982) Writing the South-West language, Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education, Perth.
Gifford, E.F. (1886b) 'Vocabulary no.26, Lower Blackwood: Peopleman tribe', pp.362-363 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Graham, W.H. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.23, Kojonup and Eticup', pp.348-351 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
O'Grady, G.N. (1957-58) Materials on the suffixing languages of Western Australia, MS.
WA Aboriginal Association (1968) A study of the Bibbulmum dialect, ts.


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