4.4.16 Warriyangka

Location: Middle Gascoyne River, Upper Lyons River, about Bangenall.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Warianga
Wariangga (Tindale)
Wariengga (O'Grady)
Wariwonga
Wariwongga (Tindale)
Warri-wonga
Woorienga
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Mantharta
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.22
Capell (1963):W.37
Oates (1975):50A.4
3. Dialects of the language:
Austin (1988b) says Malykaru is a dialect of Warriyangka. Tindale names Malguru as the language east of Kennedy Range and in the hills east of Lyons River from Gascoyne Junction north to near Minnie Creek, at Eudamullah, south to near Fossil Hill.
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Oates (1975): 10 speakers at Gifford station.
Austin (1986 p.c.) says there are no speakers left.
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Peter Austin (late 1970s onwards)
6. Practical spelling system:
Austin has developed one.
7. Word lists:
Austin (1979b, 1986c)
Brandenstein (1973a, 1982a)
O'Grady (1959)
8. Texts:
Austin (1986h)
Brandenstein (1973a)
Brandenstein (1982a)
O'Grady (1967f, 1967i)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Austin (1987c)
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 work)
Alexander, W.B. (1919) 'Aboriginal names of the animals of the Lyons River district', pp.37- 40 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Vol.5.
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. (1983) '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. (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).]
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 2D,5 and 2D,8).
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1973a) AIAS questionnaire, 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.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (n.d.d) Tjururu text material, ts.
Dench, A.C. (1983a) Pilbara pronoun reconstructions, ts.
Dench, A.C. (1985d) Pilbara demonstrative reconstructions, ts.
Fink, R.A. (1956) Fieldnotes, 8 notebooks, 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. (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. (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. (n.d.h) Warianga verb suffixes and sentences, ts.

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