4.2.3 BINJARUB
Location: Pinjarra to Harvey; lower reaches of the Murray River.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Bindjarub (Capell)
Kurwongi
Murray Tribe
Pindjarup (Tindale)
Pinjarra
Pinjarup (O'Grady)
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Nyungar
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.10
Capell (1963):W.06
Oates (1975):54.d
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:
Grey (1840)
Hammond (1933)
Hammond (n.d.c)
Hope (1916)
Roth (1904)
Scott (1886)
8. Texts:
None
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Douglas (1968b)
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. (n.d.2) Food, typescript copy of MS, Section 8, ANL-MS365-27/2-144.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.23) Names supplied to Mrs D.M. Bates by Yabburgurt (George Wingan) a native of Mandurah, ts.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.86) Native vocabularies - Murray Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-43/56-78.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.98) Native vocabularies - Pinjarra Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, ANL-MS365-41/51-95.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.99) Native vocabularies - Pinjarra, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-46/100-101.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.112) Native vocabularies - South-West, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-43/13-54.
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.148) Songs, dances, etc. - Western Australia, typescript copy of MS, Section 11, ANL-MS365-34/2-135.
Bennett, E.,P.Bindon and P.McKay (n.d.) Plants used by South-western Aboriginals, WA Museum leaflet.
Berndt, R.M. (1980a) 'Aborigines of the South-West', pp.39-53 in R.M. Berndt and C.H. Berndt, Aborigines of the West: their past and present, UWA Press, Perth.
Bindon, P. (n.d.) Notes on plant foods of the Southwest, extracted from D.M.Bates's manuscript, ts.
Chester, G. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.32, Kent District: Warrangoo tribe', pp.390-391 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Colebatch, Sir H. (1929) A story of a hundred years: Western Australia 1829-1929, Government Printer, Perth.
Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1903a) 'Aboriginal placenames and meanings', p.133 in Science of Man, Vol.6, no.9.
Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1903b) 'Western Australian Aboriginal placenames' p.147 in Science of Man, Vol.6, no.10.
Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1904a) 'Aboriginal placenames and meanings' p.181 in Science of Man, Vol.6, no.11.
Correspondent no. 1438/92 (n.d.) Native vocabulary, names from Correspondent no.1438/92, ts.
Davis, J. (1970) The first born and other poems, Angus and Robertson, Sydney.
Davis, J. (n.d.) A glossary of the Bibbulmum language.
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. (1973) 'The language of southwestern Australia', pp.48-50 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Vol.56, Parts 1 and 2>.
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.
Grey, G. (1840a) A vocabulary of the dialects of South-Western Australia, T. and W. Boone, London .
Hammond, J.E. (1933) Winjan's people, Imperial Printing Co., Perth.
Hammond, J.E. (n.d.a) Aboriginals' corroboree dance and list of fish and animal names, MS.
Hammond, J.E. (n.d.b) The native language of the South-West, ts.
Hammond, J.E. (n.d.c) Wordlist, ts.
Hope, J. (1916) Information hereunder supplied to Mr J. Hope by native Tommy Bimbar 15/5/1916, MS.
Roth, W.E. (1904) 'Notes of savage life in the early days of West Australian settlement', pp.45-69 in Royal Society of Queensland Proceedings, Vol.17.
Scott, R. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.22, Pinjarra', pp.346-347 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Turner, J. (1969) The Swan River natives and the Walyunga site, MS.
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