4.4.12 Purduna
Location: Henry River and Upper Lyndon River.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Boordoona (Bates)
Bootena
Boruna (Tindale)
Bu-tena
Budoona
Buduna
Burduna
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Kanyara
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W 24
Capell (1963):W.8
Oates (1975):51.1b
3. Dialects of the language:
Austin (1985): two dialects
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Oates (1975) says there were two speakers in 1965.
Austin (1986 p.c.) says there are no speakers.
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Peter Austin (1978 to the present)
6. Practical spelling system:
None
7. Word lists:
Austin (1979a)
Klokeid (1967a)
O'Grady (1959)
8. Texts:
Brandenstein (1982a)
Brandenstein (1969g)
O'Grady (1967i)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Austin (n.d.a)
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. (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. (1981c) 'Proto-Kanyara and Proto-Mantharta historical phonology', pp.295-333 in Lingua, Vol.54.
Austin, P. (1981d) Southern Pilbara fieldnotes - Notebook 7.
Austin, P. (1982c) Southern Pilbara phonology revisited. Paper presented at the ALS Annual Conference, Sydney, ts.
Austin, P. (1983a) 'Southern Pilbara dictionaries', pp.1-17 in P. Austin, Papers in Australian linguistics No.15: Australian Aboriginal lexicography, Pacific Linguistics, A-66, Canberra.
Austin, P. (1985a) Annotations and corrections to 'Proto-Kanyara and Proto-Mantharta historical phonology', ts.
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. (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. (1987d) Gascoyne-Ashburton Project, Project Report 6, Spelling of language names, Linguistics Division, La Trobe University.
Austin, P. (1988a) 'Aboriginal languages of the Gascoyne-Ashburton region', pp.43-63 in La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics 1.
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 (especially 4a).
Brandenstein, C. G. von (1965g) Report [to AIAS] on fieldwork in north-west Western Australia, 15 June-15 July 1965.
Brandenstein, C. G. von (1969g) The diaries of C.G. von Brandenstein, 1964-1969, MS.
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.
Klokeid, T.J. (1967a) Burduna vocabulary, 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. (1959) Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney.
O'Grady, G.N. (1960a) Fieldnotes, MS.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967b) Fieldnotes, Western Australia, Vol.8.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967i) Talandji, Yinggarda, Warrienga, Purduna, Warnman, Nyangumarda. Tape transcriptions, MS.
O'Grady, G.N. (n.d.b) Buduna vocabulary, 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.
Paterson, A. (1957) Buduna, Talandji, Noala and Jindjibandi lexical test lists.