4.3.7 INGGARDA

4.3.7 Inggarda


Location: Coast at Shark Bay between Gascoyne and Wooramel Rivers; inland to Red Hill.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Angardie
Ingara
Ingarda (Bates)
Ingarra
Inparra
Jinggarda
Kakarakala (Gifford)
Yingkarta (Dench)
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Kardu
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.19
Capell (1963):W.22
Oates (1975):53.2
3. Dialects of the language:
Dench (1985a) and O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966) say the language has a northern and southern dialect. Austin names the dialects as Manthi and Thirrily.
Tindale locates Mandi (Manthi) at Carnarvon, on the lower Gascoyne River from Doorawarrah to the sea, south to near Grey Point, north only to the southern part of Boolathanna. Tindale locates Tedei (Thirrily) at the eastern coast of Shark Bay and valley of the Wooramal River from the coast north of Yarringa, north only to Pimbie, Carey Downs, and the south of Towrana.
4. Number and distribution of speakers:
Less than ten speakers according to O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966).
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Alan Dench (from late 1970s)
6. Practical spelling system:
None
7. Word lists:
Bates (n.d.27, n.d.34))
Davidson (1932)
Gifford (1886a)
Gribble (1903)
O'Grady (1959)
Richardson (1900)
8. Texts:
None
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966:114) include some grammatical and phonological information about Inggarda. Dench is working on a grammar sketch of Inggarda.
10. Language programmes:
None
11. Language learning material:
None
12. Literature in the language:
None
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Austin, P. (1986e) Gascoyne-Ashburton languages project, Project Report 4, Annotated bibliography, ts.
Austin, P. (1987d) Gascoyne-Ashburton Project, Project Report 6, Spelling of Language names, Linguistics Division, La Trobe University.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.27) Native vocabularies - Ashburton and Fortescue Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2D, ANL-MS365-49/81-113.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.34) Native vocabularies - Carnarvon Magisterial District, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2D, ANL-MS365-48/49-94.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1966a) Herbarium Stein: 25 medicinal or poisonous plants, ts.
Brandenstein, C. G. von (1969g) The diaries of C.G. von Brandenstein, 1964-1969.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1982a) Eighty-eight grammar text sheets, exemplifying grammatical, lexical and phraseological diversities as well as links of 25 Aboriginal languages from Western Australia, ts.
Brandenstein, C. G. von (n.d.c) List of audiotaped material, ts.
Davidson, D.S. (1932) Comparative vocabularies of 19 Western Australian languages, ts.
Dench, A.C. (1980) Fieldnotes on Western Australian languages taken at Onslow, WA, MS.
Dench, A.C. (1985a) A grammar of Yingkarta (draft ts).
Dench, A.C. (1979b) A first outline of the Yingarta language, ts.
Dench, A.C. (1985c) Introduction to Inggarda, ts.
Gifford, E.F. (1886a) 'Vocabulary no.11, The Kakarakala tribe', pp.302-305 in E.M.Curr, The Australian race, Vol.1.
Gribble, E.R. (1903) 'Aboriginal dialects-Gascoigne River-Western Australia', p.56 in Science of Man, Vol.6, no.4.
Hale, K.L. (1960) Fieldnotes, MS.
Morphy, F. (1985) Working notes on Western Australian languages. Part of an ARGS project directed by R.M.W. Dixon.
O'Grady, G.N. (1957-58) Materials on the suffixing languages of Western Australia, MS.
O'Grady, G.N. (1958) [Audiotape recordings from Onslow, Carnarvon, De Grey River area] (audiotape).
O'Grady, G.N. (1959) Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney .
O'Grady, G.N.(1960b) 'More on lexicostatics', pp.338-339 in Current Anthropology, Vol.1, no.4.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967i) Talandji, Yinggarda, Warrienga, Purduna, Warnman, Nyangumarda. Tape transcriptions, MS.
O'Grady, G.N. (n.d.e) Inggarda and Warianga, ts.
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.
Richardson, T.L. (1900) 'West Australian native words', p.98 in Science of Man, Vol.3, no.6.
Withers, G.H. (1939) The native tribes of the upper Murchison and upper Gascoyne, MS.


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