4.4.10 Payungu

Location: Lower Lyndon and Minilya Rivers.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Baiong
Bajungu (Tindale)
Bayungu (O'Grady)
Biong
Pajungu
Payu (O'Grady, Tindale)
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Kanyara
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W23
Capell (1963):W.3
Oates (1975):51.2
3. Dialects of the language:
No information
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Austin (1988 p.c.) says Payungu has 2 speakers and a number of people who remember some of the language.
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Peter Austin (1978 to the present)
6. Practical spelling system:
Austin has developed a practical spelling system.
7. Word lists:
Austin (1984a)
Davidson (1932)
O'Grady (1959, 1967f)
8. Texts:
Austin (1987e)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
None
10. Language programmes:
Carnarvon Senior High School has taught Payungu, using materials prepared by Peter Austin.
11. Language learning material:
Austin (1987f)
12. Literature in the language:
None
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Austin, P. (1978a) Fieldnotes - Dargari, Dhalandji, Yinggarda, Bayungu, Burduna, Dyiwarli, Binigura, Dyururu., MS.
Austin, P. (1979a) A word list of the Kanyara languages, ts.
Austin, P. (1981a) 'Case marking in southern Pilbara languages', pp.211-226 in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.1, no.2.
Austin, P. (1981d) Southern Pilbara fieldnotes - Notebook 7.
Austin, P. (1983a) 'Southern Pilbara dictionaries', pp.1-17 in P. Austin, (ed.) Papers in Australian linguistics No.15: Australian Aboriginal lexicography, Pacific Linguistics, A-66, Canberra.
Austin, P. (1983b) Southern Pilbara fieldnotes - Notebook 8.
Austin, P. (1984a) An introductory dictionary of Payungu, ts.
Austin, P. (1984c) Southern Pilbara fieldnotes - Notebooks 9-11.
Austin, P. (1985c) Classification of Southern Pilbara languages. Revised version of a paper presented to the Pacific Science Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand, ts.
Austin, P. (1985d) Southern Pilbara fieldnotes - Notebooks 12-14.
Austin, P. (1986c) Comparative list of Pilbara languages (computer file and ts).
Austin, P. (1986d) Database reports (computer file and ts).
Austin, P. (1986e) Gascoyne-Ashburton languages project, Project Report 4, Annotated bibliography, ts.
Austin, P. (1986g) Kanyara languages: glossed sentences and texts (computer file and ts).
Austin, P. (1986j) Project report 1: placenames, ts.
Austin, P. (1986k) Southern Pilbara phonology, ts.
Austin, P. (1987a) A learner's dictionary of Payungu, Western Australia, Linguistics Division, La Trobe University.
Austin, P. (1987b) A learner's reference dictionary of Payungu, Western Australia, Linguistics Division, La Trobe University.
Austin, P. (1987d) Gascoyne-Ashburton Project, Project Report 6, Spelling of language names, Linguistics Division, La Trobe University.
Austin, P. (1987e) Payungu kujuru: Payungu stories, ts.
Austin, P. (1987f) Payungu Wanggara: Let's talk Payungu, ts.
Austin, P. (1988b) 'Classification of Southern Pilbara languages', pp.1-17 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No.17, Pacific Linguistics, A-71, Canberra. [Also Austin (1985c).]
Austin, P. (n.d.a) A reference grammar of the Kanyara languages, ts.
Austin, P. (n.d.b) Vocabulary, songs, audiotapes in languages of the West Pilbara (audiotapes).
Bates, D.M. (n.d.106) Native vocabularies - Roebourne, Gascoyne, Ashburton, De Grey, ts, Section 12, 2D, ANL - MS 365 Box 48-51.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1967c) 'The language situation in the Pilbara - past and present', pp.1-20 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 2, Pacific Linguistics, A-11, Canberra.
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.
Davidson, D.S. (1932) Comparative vocabularies of 19 Western Australian languages, ts.
Hale, K.L. (1960) Fieldnotes, MS.
Klokeid, T.J. (1967b) [Songs recorded at Marble Bar].
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. (1959) Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967f) Nyangumarda, Bayunga, Wariyangka, Targari [Transcripts of audiotapes].
O'Grady, G.N. (n.d.a) Bayungu verb suffixes, sentences, pronouns, 'textlets', 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.
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. (n.d.) North-west division short vocabulary, ts.

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