4.6.12 Yulparija

Location: West of Sturt Creek.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Julbarida (O'Grady)
Julbaridja (Capell, AIAS, O'Grady)
Jülbre (Capell, Oates, Tindale, O'Grady)
Julbri
YulapaRitya (Oates)
Yulbaradja (McKelson)
Yulbaridja (AIATSIS)
Yulbaridya (McKelson)
Yulbari-dja (Petri)
Yulparitja (Hansen)
Yulbri
Yulparija
Yurlparija (KLRC, Keeping Language Strong)
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Wati
Identification codes:AIATSIS:A.67
Capell (1963):A.19
Oates (1975):56.2an, 56.2ao, 56.10c
Tindale (1974:245) says the term Yulparija '"'is not tribally limited and it is useless as a distinguishing label'"'.
Clendon (1990 p.c.) notes that Yulparija refers to Manjiljarra, Pintupi and Kukatja from the perspective of southern Kimberley languages.
3. Dialects of the language:
Desert languages have an avoidance style as well as the everyday style.
No other information.
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Yulparija is today the dominant language of La Grange, where it is spoken by over 100 persons (McKelson, in McGregor 1988).
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
Fr Kevin McKelson (since 1950s, mainly in La Grange and Broome)
Geoffrey O'Grady (1950s, La Grange)
6. Practical spelling system:
The same as for Nyangumarta and Manjiljarra, it has been in use in the La Grange school programme.
7. Word lists:
Burridge (n.d.)
Capell (1940)
McKelson (1968a,1978)
O'Grady (1956,1959,1967a,1967g,1968).
8. Texts:
Catholic Church (n.d.)
McKelson (1981)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
Burridge (n.d.)
McKelson (1978)
O'Grady (1959) and O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966) contain some grammatical information.
10. Language programmes:
La Grange includes Yulparija in its language programme.
11. Language learning material:
McKelson (1978,1983)
12. Literature in the language:
Literature that has been produced for the language programme operating at La Grange School. For more information the reader is directed to that school.
Not all is listed here.
Bangu (n.d.)
Catholic Church (n.d.)
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Bangu, J. (n.d.) Ngayu-ngarna yurta, La Grange.
Brown, M. (1979) . Morphological reconstruction of proto-Western Desert, BA (Hons) thesis, ANU.
Burbidge, A.A., K.A. Johnson, P.J. Fuller and R.I. Southgate (1988) 'Aboriginal knowledge of the mammals of the Central Deserts of Australia', pp.9-39 in Australian Wildlife Research, Vol.15.
Burridge, K (n.d.) A sketch grammar of Yulbaridja, (to appear in McGregor (forthcoming) A festschrift for Howard Coate), ts.
Capell, A. (1940a) 'The classification of languages in north and north-west Australia', pp.241-272 in Oceania, Vol.10, no.3; pp. 404-433, Vol.10, no.4..
Capell, A. (1972) 'The affix-transferring languages of Australia', pp.5-36 in Talanya Vol.1.
Catholic Church (n.d.) Liturgy and ritual. Our father, Hail Mary (adapted and translated by K. McKelson), MS.
Geytenbeek, B.B. and H. Geytenbeek (1980) Nyangumarda fieldnotes, 1976-1979, MS.
Hansen, K. (1984) 'Communicability of some Western Desert Communilects', pp. 1-112 in J. Hudson and N. Pym, (eds) Language survey, Work Papers of SIL-AAB, B-11, SIL, Darwin.
McKelson, K.R. (1968a) [Letter to AIAS], MS.
McKelson, K.R. (1978) Basic Yulbaridya, ts.
McKelson, K.R. (1981a) 'Notes for staff on La Grange Mission: kinship' pp.3-17 in Nelen Yubu Vol.7.
McKelson, K.R. (1981b) Sentences in Yulparija, MS.
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.
O'Grady, G.N. (1956) 'A secret language of Western Australia - a note', pp.158-159 in Oceania, Vol.27, no.2.
O'Grady, G.N. (1957-1958) Material on suffixing languages of Western Australia, ts.
O'Grady, G.N. (1959) Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967a) [Audiotape recordings from Carnarvon, La Grange, Marble Bar and De Grey River area] (audiotape).
O'Grady, G.N. (1967e) Nyamal and Yulparidja [Transcripts of audiotapes], ts.
O'Grady, G.N. (1967g) Nyangumarda, Ngarla, Nyamal, Warnman [Transcripts of audiotapes], ts.
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.
Peile, A.R. (1965c) [Letter to AIAS], Beagle Bay Mission, 27 June 1965.
Petri, H. (1966) 'Dynamik im Stammesleben Nordwest-Australiens' pp.152-168 in Paideuma, Vol.6, no.3.
Roheim, G. (1945) The eternal ones of the dream: a psychoanalytic interpretation of Australian myth and ritual, International Universities Press, New York.
Tsunoda, T. (n.d.) Comments on K. McKelson's 'A comparative study of pronouns', ts.

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