4.2.6 MINANG

4.2.6 Minang


Location: King George Sound, north to Stirling Range, Tenterden, Lake Muir, Cowerup and Shannon River; coast from West Cliff Point to Boat Harbour at Pallinup; at Mount Barker, Noralup, Porongorup Range.

1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
 Mearn-anger (Nind 1831)
Meenun
Mining (Capell)
Minnal Yungar
Minong (Douglas)
Minung (Oates 1975)
Mirnong (Wurm)
Mount Barker Tribe
Tindale says Minang means 'south' and is the term applied to south-western languages by the Kalamaya.
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Nyungar
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.02
Capell (1963):W.29
Oates (1975):54.2d
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:
Bates (n.d.2, n.d.25, n.d.26, n.d.58)
Graham (1886)
O'Grady (1959)
Spencer, Hossell and Knight (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:
None
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.7) Geographical distribution (early notes), typescript copy of MS, Section 2: 2c, ANL-MS365-3/150-164.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.25) Native vocabularies - Albany and Denmark, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-40/43-95.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.26) Native vocabularies - Albany Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-40/98-159.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.58) Native vocabularies - King George's Sound, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-46/35-38.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.129) Outline of grammar [2] - Pronouns, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 1, ANL-MS365-37/43-97.
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.
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.
Coyne, P. (1980) A Nyungar vocabulary list from the Albany area, 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.
Graham, W.H. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.23, Kojonup and Eticup', pp.348-351 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Grey, G. (1840a) A vocabulary of the dialects of South-Western Australia, T. and W. Boone, London.
Grey, G. (1840b) Philology, in the library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, held in the South African Library, Cape Town (microfilm).
Grey, G. (1841) Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia during the years 1837, 38, and 39, T. and W. Boone, London (facsimile 1964).
King, P.P. (1827) Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, J. Murray, London (facsimile 1969).
Mathew, J. (1899) Eaglehawk and crow, Melville, Mullen and Slade, Melbourne.
Moore, G.F. (1879a) 'Vocabulary no.17, King George's Sound, WA', pp.142-152 in G. Taplin, Folklore, manners and customs.
Morphy, F. (1985) Working notes on Western Australian languages. Part of an ARGS project directed by R.M.W.Dixon.
Nind, S. (1831) 'Description of the natives of King George Sound (Swan River Colony) and adjoining country', pp. 21-51 in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol.1.
O'Grady, G.N. (1959) Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney.
Ogle, N. (1839) The colony of Western Australia: a manual for emigrants, Fraser, London (facsimile 1977).
Serventy, D.L. (1926) 'Birds of Pallinup Estuary, West Australia' pp.64-69, 136 in Emu, Vol. 26.
Smyth, R.Brough (1878) The Aborigines of Victoria, Vol.1, Government Printer, Melbourne.
Spencer, W.A., J.A. Hossell and W.A. Knight (1886) 'Vocabulary no. 31, King George's Sound: Minung tribe', pp. 386-389 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
White, I.M. (1980) The birth and death of a ceremony, MS.


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