4.2.7 WAJUK

4.2.7 Wajuk


Location: Swan River inland to beyond Wongan Hills; at Northam, Newcastle, Toodyay, York, Perth; south along the coast to Pinjarra.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Beelia
Beeloo
Derbal
Juadjek
Karakata
Minal-njunga
Mooro
Murram
Swan River Tribe
Wadjug (Capell)
Whadjuk
Witjari (Tindale)
Yuatjek
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Nyungar
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.09
Capell (1963):W.35
Oates (1975):54.b
3. Dialects of the language:
Capell suggests that Wudjari is a dialect of Wadjuk.
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 (1840a, 1840b)
Hassell (1936)
Knight (1886)
Lyon (1833)
Moore (1884)
O'Grady (1959)
Parish (1979)
Parker (1886)
Scott (1886)
Symmons (1842)
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. (1907) 'A southern corroboree', p.63 in the Western Mail, 25 December 1907.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.2) Food, typescript copy of MS, Section 8, ANL-MS365-27/2-144.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.11) Geographical notes - South-West subdivisions, typescript copy of MS, Section 2: 3d, i, ii, ANL-MS365-4/151-199.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.31) Native vocabularies - Bunbury, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-46/2-8.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.67) Native vocabularies - Meckering, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-42/52-67.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.94) Native vocabularies - Perth, Swan River, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-45/67-88.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.110) Native vocabularies - South-West-Miscellaneous, typescript copy of MS, ANL-MS365-46/15-34.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.116) Native vocabularies - Swan Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-42/2-49.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.124) Native vocabularies - York District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B: 27, ANL-MS365-43/79-90.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.125) Native vocabularies - York Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-41/134-177.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.126) Native vocabularies - York, Northam, etc., typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-45/2-66.
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.130) Outline of grammar [3] - Verbs, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 1, ANL-MS365-37/98-141.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.145) Songs, dances, etc. - Native songs, Perth, Vasse, Gingin, etc., typescript copy of MS, Section 11, ANL-MS365-36/67-87.
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.
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 (1904a) 'Aboriginal placenames and meanings', p.181 in Science of Man, Vol.6, no.11.
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.
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).
Hackett, D.E. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.21, York District: the Ballardong tribe', pp.344-345 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.
Knight, W.E. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.19, Perth', pp.328-333 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Lyon, R.M. (1833) 'A glance at the manners and language of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia, with a short vocabulary', pp.51-52 in the Perth Gazette, Vol.I, no.13, 30 March 1833; p.56, Vol.I, no.14, 6 April 1833; pp.59-60, Vol.I, no.15, 13 April 1833; pp.63-64, Vol.I, no.16, 20 April 1833.
Madden, R.R. (n.d.) Vocabulary of the Aborigines, Perth tribe dialect (microfilm).
Mathew, J. (1899) Eaglehawk and crow, Melville, Mullen and Slade, Melbourne.
Moore, G.F (1842) A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the natives of Western Australia, W.S. Orr & Co., London.
Moore, G.F. (1879b) 'Vocabulary no.18, Swan River, WA', p.152 in G. Taplin, Folklore, manners and customs.
Moore, G.F. (1884) Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia incorporating 'A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia', UWA facsimile, 1978.
Morphy, F. (1985) Working notes on Western Australian languages. Part of an ARGS project directed by R.M.W.Dixon.
Nomenclature section of the Department of Lands and Surveys (1975) Origins and histories of Perth suburbs, ts.
O'Grady, G.N. (1957-58) Materials on the suffixing languages of Western Australia, MS.
O'Grady, G.N. (1959) Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney.
O'Grady, G.N., C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin (1966) 'Languages of the world: Indo-Pacific fascicle 6', pp.1-197 in Anthropological Linguistics, Vol.8, no.2.
Parish, L. (1979) Wadjuk language, MS.
Parker, E.R. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.20, The Whajook tribe', pp.336-341 in E.M.Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Scott, R. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.22, Pinjarra', pp.346-347 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Smyth, R.Brough (1878) The Aborigines of Victoria, Vol.1, Government Printer, Melbourne.
Stokes, J. Lort (1846) Discoveries in Australia, T. and W. Boone, London (facsimile 1969).
Symmons, C. (1842) 'Grammatical introduction to the study of the Aboriginal language of Western Australia', appendix to C. Macfaull (ed.) The Western Australian Almanack.
Turner, J. (1969) The Swan River natives and the Walyunga site, MS.
Whitfield, G. (1886) 'Vocabulary no.18, Newcastle', pp.324-327 in E.M. Curr, The Australian race, Vol. 1.


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