4.2.4 Goreng

Location: From Gairdner River to Pallinup River; inland to Jeramungup, Pingrup, Nampup, Badgepup and Kibbleup near Broome Hill; south to Stirling Range; at Gnowangerup and Ongerup; Katanning to Bremer Bay (Oates).
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Caracterrup
Corine
Koreng (Tindale)
Korrlup (Bates)
Kuriny
Qualup
Warangu
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Nyungar
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.05
Capell (1963):W.19
Oates (1975):54.2b
Brandenstein includes Goreng in Wudjaarri.
Tindale says that Hassell's work, under the name of Wheelman, is actually Goreng.
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:
Chester (1886)
Goldsworthy (1886c)
Graham (1886)
Tindale (1939a)
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. (1914) 'A few notes on some South-Western Australian dialects', pp.65-82 in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.44.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.56) Native vocabularies - Jerramungup, Mr A.Y. Hassell's Station, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-46/93-99.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.57) Native vocabularies - Katanning, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-41/2-48.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.111) Native vocabularies - South-West-Miscellaneous, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-44/16-64.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.129) Outline of grammar [2] - Pronouns, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 1, ANL-MS365-37/43-97.
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.
Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1903a) 'Aboriginal placenames and meanings', p.133 in Science of Man, Vol.6, no.9.
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.
Goldsworthy, R.T. (1886c) 'Vocabulary no.30, Mount Stirling: Kokar tribe', pp.384-385 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.
Hassell, E. (1936) 'Notes on the ethnology of the Wheelman tribe of Southwestern Australia', pp.679-711 in Anthropos, Vol.31.
Laves, G. (1930b) [Texts in Kurin] The Laves papers.
Laves, G. (193?b) Language cards, Kurin to English, in The Laves papers.
Palmer, K. (1976) Aboriginal oral tradition from the south-west of Western Australia, ts.
Tindale, N.B. (1939a) Vocabulary no.81, Koreng Tr., Gairdner River, Australian vocabularies, MS.
Turner, J. (1969) The Swan River natives and the Walyunga site, MS.

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