4.2.9 WIILMAN
Location: At Wagin and Narrogin; on Collie, Hotham and Williams Rivers west to Collie; Wuraming north to Gnowing, Pingelly; east to Wickepin; south to Nampup, Katanning, Woodanilling.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Jabaru
Weal
Weel
Wheelman
Wi:lman
Will
Williams Tribe
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Nyungar
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.07
Capell (1963):W.38
Oates (1975):(not mentioned)
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:
Hassell (1934-35)
Hassell (1936)
Hassell (1975)
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.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.122) Native vocabularies - Williams Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2B, ANL-MS365-41/98-131.
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.
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.
Hassell, E.A. (1934-35) 'Myths and folktales of the Wheelman tribe of Southwestern Australia', pp.232-248 in Folklore Vol.45, no.4 (1934), pp.317-341 in Folklore Vol.45, no.4 (1934), pp.122-147 Folklore Vol.46, no.2 (1935), pp.268-281 in Folklore Vol.46, no.3 (1935), selected and revised by D.S. Davidson.
Hassell, E. ed. (1936) 'Notes on the ethnology of the Wheelman tribe of Southwestern Australia', pp.679-711 in Anthropos, Vol.31.
Hassell, E.A. (1975) My dusky friends, C.W.Hassell, Fremantle.
Morphy, F. (1985) Working notes on Western Australian languages. Part of an ARGS project directed by R.M.W.Dixon.
Turner, J. (1969) The Swan River natives and the Walyunga site, MS.
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