4.4.14 Tharrkari
Location: Kennedy Range; Upper Minilya River and Lower Lyons River.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Dalgari
Dargari
Targari (O'Grady)
Tarkarri
Tarlgarri
Tarugari (Tindale)
Thadgarri
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Kanyara
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W21
Capell (1963):W13
Oates (1975):51.3
3. Dialects of the language:
Austin (1988b) says there are several dialects of Tharrkari.
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Klokeid (1969) says there were less than 12 speakers
Austin (1986 p.c.) says there are two speakers
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Peter Austin (1978 to the present)
Terry Klokeid (1967)
6. Practical spelling system:
Austin has developed one.
7. Word lists:
Austin (1979a, 1986c)
Davidson (1932)
O'Grady (1959)
8. Texts:
Klokeid (1967c, 1967d)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Klokeid (1969)
Austin (1982a)
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 Mantharta 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. (1981b) Dhargari, Western Australia: a preliminary grammar, ts.
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. (1982a) An introductory grammar of Tharrkari, Western Australia, ts.
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. (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. (1986h) Mantharta languages: glossed sentences and texts (computer file and ts).
Austin, P. (1986j) Project report 1: placenames, ts.
Austin, P. (1987c) A reference grammar of the Mantharta language, MS.
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.b) Vocabulary, songs, audiotapes in languages of the West Pilbara (audiotapes).
Davidson, D.S. (1932) Comparative vocabularies of 19 Western Australian languages, ts.
Dench, A. (1983a) Pilbara pronoun reconstructions, ts.
Dench, A. (1985d) Pilbara demonstrative reconstructions, ts.
Klokeid, T.J. (1967c) Thargari notebook, MS.
Klokeid, T.J. (1967d) Thargari fieldnotes, MS.
Klokeid, T.J. (1969) Thargari phonology and morphology, Pacific Linguistics, B-12, Canberra.
Merlan, F.C. (1979) 'On the prehistory of some Australian verbs', pp. 33-112, Oceanic Linguistics, Vol.18.
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. (1966) 'Proto-Ngayarda phonology', pp.71-130 in Oceanic Linguistics, no. 5.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967a) [Audiotape recordings from Carnarvon, La Grange, Marble Bar and De Grey River area] (audio-tape).
O'Grady, G.N. (1967f) Nyangumarda, Bayunga, Wariyangka, Targari [Transcripts of audiotapes].
O'Grady, G.N. (n.d.d) Dargari sentences and vocabulary, ts.
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