Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra : Language for us, the Yanyuwa Saltwater People : a Yanyuwa encyclopaedia, Yanyuwa families and John Bradley incorporating the work of Jean Kirton and Elfreda MacDonald

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Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra : Language for us, the Yanyuwa Saltwater People : a Yanyuwa encyclopaedia, Yanyuwa families and John Bradley incorporating the work of Jean Kirton and Elfreda MacDonald

Title remainder

Language for us, the Yanyuwa Saltwater People : a Yanyuwa encyclopaedia

Statement of responsibility

Yanyuwa families and John Bradley incorporating the work of Jean Kirton and Elfreda MacDonald

Instantiates

• Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra : Language for us, the Yanyuwa Saltwater People : a Yanyuwa encyclopaedia

Publication

• North Melbourne, Vic., Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016-2017

Note

Volume 2 incorporating the work of Jean Kirton, Yasuko Nagai and Elfreda MacDonald

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references Volume 1 (pages [561]-564); Volume 2 pages [705]-706 and index

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volume

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• text
• still image
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Contents

Volume 1 : Finding the beginning : a reflection -- The country of the Yanyuwa language : languages before non-Aboriginal contact; The contemporary language community; Initial non-Aboriginal contact; Borroloola and the Malarndarri camp; The cattle industry; Education: schools and policy; Recent trends -- Recording Yanyuwa: people, words and meanings : Ludwig Leichhardt; W.G. Stretton; Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen; Arthur Capell; Marie Reay; Ken Hale; Elwin Flint; Jean Kirton, Elfreda McDonald and Yasuko Nagai; John Bradley -- Yanyuwa texts : texts collected by Marie Reay, 1959-62; Texts collected by Ken Hale, 1959; Texts collected by Jean Kirton, 1964-84; Texts collected by Yasuko Nagai, 1980-81; Texts collected by John Bradley, 1982-2013; Yanyuwa song poetry -- Ancestral Dreaming texts -- Appendix A: Yanyuwa word games -- Appendix B: Yanyuwa sign language -- Appendix C: Yanyuwa string games -- Volume 2: Part 1: Yanyuwa grammar : the sounds of Yanyuwa; Dialects in Yanyuwa : respectful or avoidance language; Island or Saltwater language; Old-time language; Ceremony language; Men's and women's language -- Noun classes in Yanyuwa; Pronouns in Yanyuwa; Adjectives in Yanyuwa; Verbs in Yanyuwa -- Part 2 : Yanyuwa-English dictionary -- Part 3: English-Yanyuwa word finder

Control code

000058565446

Dimensions

23 cm.

Extent

2 volumes (xxvii, 589 pages; xxiv, 706 pages)

Governing access note

Not for Inter Library Loan

Isbn

9781925003673

Isbn Type

(Vol. 1)

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unmediated

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rdamedia

Other physical details

illustrations, maps

Record ID

u478155

System control number

(OCoLC)957570810