4.5.1 KARAJARRI
Location: From south point of Roebuck Bay south-west to a place ten miles north of Anna Plains Station; inland about seventy miles.
Sandy Brown (p.c.) says that Karajarri country used to extend south to the De Grey River along the coast.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Garadjari (Capell)
Garadyaria
Karadjeri
Karajarri (McKelson)
Karatyarri
Karrajarra
Murgud
Nadja Nangu
Nawurtu
Ngangu
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Marrngu
Identification codes:AIATSIS:A.64
Capell (1963):A.13
Oates (1975):57.2
3. Dialects of the language:
There are three dialects: Naja or Murgud (coastal), Ngangu (middle) and Nawurtu (McGregor) or Ngaudu (McKelson) (inland).
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
About 20 speakers at Broome and La Grange (McKelson p.c.)
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Arthur Capell (1940)
Nora Kerr (1960s)
Gerhardt Laves (1929-31)
Fr Kevin McKelson (1950s to the present)
Fr Ernst Worms
6. Practical spelling system:
The same as for Nyangumarta and MartuWangka; it has been in use in the La Grange school programme.
7. Word lists:
Capell (1940a)
Kerr (n.d.)
McKelson (n.d.c, 1968a)
O'Grady (1968)
Worms (1944a, 1944b)
8. Texts:
Capell (1949-50)
McKelson (1974a)
Moyle (1968)
Nekes and Worms (1953)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Capell (1962b)
Laves (1931)
McKelson (n.d.c, 1975, forthcoming)
10. Language programmes:
La Grange school has a programme using Karajarri.
11. Language learning material:
McKelson (1975)
McKelson (1983)
12. Literature in the language:
McKelson (1974a)
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Bates, D.M. (n.d.18) .Myths and legends - Murchison tribes; Myths and legends - North-West, typescript copy of MS, Section 7; ANL-MS365-26/277-285; ANL-MS365-25/561-640.
Bates, D.M. (n.d.61) .Native vocabularies - La Grange Bay, typescript copy of MS, Section 12, 2E, ANL-MS365-53/35-38.
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 (1970e) 'Portuguese loan-words in Aboriginal languages of north-western Australia (a problem of Indo-European and Finno-Ugrian comparative linguistics)' pp.617-650 in S.A. Wurm and D.C. Laycock (eds) Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell, Pacific Linguistics, C-13, Canberra.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1972d) 'The Phoenix '"'Totemism'"'', pp.586-594 in Anthropos, Vol.67.
Capell, A. (1940a) 'The classification of languages in North and North-West Australia', pp.241- 272, in Oceania, Vol.10, no.3; 404-433, Vol.10, no.4.
Capell, A. (1949-50) 'Some myths of the Garadjeri tribe, Western Australia' pp.46-61, 108-125, in Mankind, Vol.4, no.2; pp.148-162, Vol.4, no.4.
Capell, A. (1962b) Some linguistic types in Australia, Oceanic Linguistic Monograph no.7.
Capell, A. (1970) 'Linguistic change in Australia', pp.240-255 in A.R. Pilling and R.A. Waterman, (eds) Diprotodon to detribalization, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing.
Capell, A. and A.P. Elkin (1937-38) 'The languages of the Kimberley division', pp.216- 246 in Oceania, Vol.8.
Catholic Church (1974) Liturgy and ritual. Our father, Hail Mary (adapted and translated by K.McKelson), ts.
Geytenbeek. B.B. and H. Geytenbeek (1980) Nyangumarda fieldnotes, 1976-79, MS.
Haekel, J. and D.M. Bates (1950) Zum Individual - und Geschlechts-totemismus in Australien [Origin of the Australian race], Vienna; Herold, typescript copy of MS, Section 1: 2 ; diags., ANL-MS365-183-123.
Keogh, R.L. (1981) The two men: an Aboriginal song cycle from the Kimberleys, B.Mus. (Hons) thesis, University of Sydney.
Kerr, N.F. (1967) [Transcriptions from audiotapes - Nyigina, Yawur and Karadjari, Broome], MS.
Kerr, N.F. (n.d.) A comparative wordlist: Nyigina and neighbouring languages, MS.
Laves, G. (1931) Notes on the grammar of Karadjeri of Western Australia, ts.
Laves, G. (193?a) Language cards, Karadjeri to English, in The Laves papers.
McGregor, W. (1988) Handbook of Kimberley languages, Pacific Linguistics, C-105, Canberra.
McKelson, K.R. (1968a) [Letter to AIAS], MS.
McKelson, K.R. (1974a) Catechism in Garadyari (Nangu): translated by Broncho, ts.
McKelson, K.R. (1975) Learn a language, MS.
McKelson, K.R. (1980) 'Nadya Nadya country', pp.214-223 in R.M. Berndt and C.H. Berndt, (eds) Aborigines of the West: their past and their present, UWA Press, Perth.
McKelson, K.R. (1981a) 'Notes for staff on La Grange Mission: kinship', pp.3-17 in Nelen Yubu, Vol.7.
McKelson, K.R. (1983) [Languages spoken at La Grange, Fitzroy Crossing, Broome, Port Hedland areas of Western Australia], ts.
McKelson, K.R. (n.d.a) A comparative study of pronouns, ts.
McKelson, K.R. (n.d.c) Studies in Garadyari, ts.
McKelson, K.R. (forthcoming) Sketch grammar of Karajarri, to appear in McGregor (ed.) Festschrift for Howard Coate.
Moyle, A.M. (1968) Songs from the Kimberleys, Companion booklet for a 12-inch LP disk, AIAS, Canberra.
Moyle, A.M. (n.d.) Songs (audiotape).
Nekes, H. and E.A. Worms (1953) 'Australian languages', Micro-Bibliotheca Anthropos, Vol.10,.(microfilm).
Nevermann, H., E.A. Worms, and H. Petri (1968) Die Religionen der Sudsee und Australiens [The religion of the Pacific and Australia], Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967a) [Audiotape recordings from Carnarvon, La Grange, Marble Bar and De Grey River area] (audiotape).
O'Grady, G.N. (1968) Notes, MS.
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.
Palmer, K. (1977b) 'Myth, ritual and rock art', pp.38-49 in Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, Vol.12, no.1.
Petri, H. (1966) 'Dynamik im Stammesleben Nordwest-Australiens', pp.152-168 in Paideuma, Vol.6, no.3.
Petri, H. (1967) 'Wandji-Kuranggara, ein mythischer Traditionskomplex aus der westichen Wuste Australiens (Wandji-Kuranggara, a complex of mythical tradition from the Western Desert of Australia)', pp.1-34 in Baessler-Archiv, Vol.15.
Petri, H. (1980) 'Pre-Initiation stages among Aboriginal groups of North-West Australia', pp.224-233 in R.M. Berndt, and C.H. Berndt, (eds) Aborigines of the West: their past and their present, UWA Press, Perth.
Petri-Odermann, G. (1963) 'Das Meer im Leben einer Nordwest-Australischen Kustenbevolkerung', pp.1-17 in Paideuma, Vol.9, no.1.
Piddington, R. (1932a) 'Karadjeri initiation', pp.46-87 in Oceania, Vol.3, no.1.
Piddington, R. (1932b) 'Totemic system of the Karadjeri tribe', pp.373-400 in Oceania, Vol.2, no.4.
Piddington, R. (ed.) (1960) An introduction to social anthropology, Vol.1, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.
Piddington, M. and R. Piddington (1932) 'Report on fieldwork in North-west Australia', pp.342-358 in Oceania, Vol.2, no.3.
Roheim, G. (1945) The eternal ones of the dream:a psychoanalytic interpretation of Australian myth and ritual, International Universities Press, New York.
Scheffler, H.W. (1977) 'Australian kin classification', pp.201-210 in W.C. McCormack and S.A.Wurm, (eds) Language and thought: anthropological issues, Mouton, The Hague.
Scheffler, H.W. (1978) Australian kin classification, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Tindale, N.B. (1952-54) Field journal of Norman B. Tindale: 18th expedition under the auspices of Board for Anthropological Research, University of Adelaide and the University of California at Los Angeles, 1952-1954 (ts and MS).
Tsunoda, T. (n.d.) Comments on K. McKelson's 'A comparative study of pronouns', ts.
Worms, E.A. (1938a) 'Foreign words in some Kimberley tribes in North-Western Australia', pp.458-462 in Oceania, Vol.8.
Worms, E.A. (1938b) [Questions and answers of interview with 'Scribe', 3 L.O.], ts.
Worms, E.A. (1942) 'Sense of smell of the Australian Aborigines: a psychological and linguistic study of the natives of the Kimberley Division', pp.107-130 in Oceania, Vol.8, no.2.
Worms, E.A. (1944a) 'Aboriginal placenames in Kimberley tribes in North-Western Australia', pp.201- 210 in Oceania, Vol.8.
Worms, E.A. (1944b) 'Aboriginal placenames in Kimberley, Western Australia', pp.284-310 in Oceania, Vol.14.
Worms, E.A. (1949) 'An Australian migratory myth', pp.33-38 in Primitive Man, Vol.22.
Worms, E.A. (1950) 'Feuer und Feuererzeuger in Sage und Brauch der Nordwest Australier', pp.145-164 in Anthropos, Vol.48.
Worms, E.A. (1957) 'Australian mythical terms: their etymology and dispersion', pp.732-768 in Anthropos, Vol.52.
Worms, E.A. (1959a) 'Verbannungslied eines australischen Wildbeuters: ein Beitrag zur Lyrik der Bad', pp.154-168 in Anthropos, Vol.54.
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