4.4.15 Thiin

Location: Head of the Henry River; Kenneth Range; Frederick River.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Denma
Teen
Tenma (O'Grady, Tindale)
Thenma
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Mantharta
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.25
Capell (1963):W.14
Oates (1975):50.9b
Austin (1988b) says the language is very similar to Jiwarli.
3. Dialects of the language:
No information
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Austin (1986 p.c.): 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 (1981d, 1986c)
Brandenstein (1982a)
O'Grady (1967h)
8. Texts:
None
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Austin (1987d)
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. (1979b) 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. (1981d) Southern Pilbara fieldnotes - Notebook 7.
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. (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).].
Bates, D.M. (n.d.21) Names of places - North-Western area, typescript copy of MS, Section 2, ANL-MS365-4/200-214.
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.
Morphy, F. (1985) Working notes on Western Australian languages. Part of an ARGS project directed by R.M.W. Dixon.
O'Grady, G.N.(1967h) Port Augusta and Carnarvon vocabularies - Thiinma, MS.

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