#warrgamay

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To the east are the high hills of Hinchinbrook Island (Pouadai) and to the west – beyond miles of mangroves, scrub and swamp – is the Great Dividing Range.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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Rockingham Bay lies in Warrgamay country.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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From "Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidiñ" in Edible gender, mother-in-law style, & other grammatical wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidiñ, & Warrgamay by R.W.M. Dixon

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Hello Hinchinbrook Island! Traditional lands of the Bandjin, Djiru, Girramay,Gulnay, Gugu Badhun, Nywaigi, Warrgamay and Warungnu peoples. Home to cros and all sorts of other critters. What a majestic place. We took 5 days to to the Thorsborne Trail. The first day we hiked with others who took the boat over with us. Lou hiked up to an impressive lookout which provided views to the bay we walked that day, Mt Bowen and the river system we entered the island in. We spent the night with a lovely girl from Adelaide called Gemma. We ate coconuts on the beach and had a fire.

[linguisten]

LDC Australia & Oceania 2/7: Warrgamay

Linguistic Diversity Challenge Australia & Oceania

What is the language called in English and the language itself?

Warrgamay, Bandjin, Bungabara, Herbert River tribe, Ieklbara, Ikelbara, Waragamai, Waragumaigan, Warakamai, Waregamai, Warekumay, Wargamay, Wargamaygan, Wargumay, Warkama, Warkamai, Warrgamay (the names in -gan are probably rather names for the speakers)

Where is the language spoken?

Northeast Queensland, Australia

How many people speak the language? Is it endangered?

Warrgamay probably became extinct already; data from 1981 and 2005 suggest that there are 3 (elderly) speakers; if not extinct by now, then it is moribund

Which language family does it belong to? What are some of its relative languages?

Warrgamay is a Pama-Nyungan language; it is considered to be related to languages of the Dyirbalic branch

What writing system does the language use?

No data on everyday use; field notes etc. were written in Latin alphabet

What kind of grammatical features does the language have? What is its typological profile?

No preferred basic order; strongly suffixing; typical phonology of the area; it is safe to assume that Warrgamay once had an avoidance register (mother-in-law language)

What does the language sound like?

What do you personally find interesting about the language?

Tbh, this language’s name just popped up in my head as “i don’t know more than it’s name about this one, time to change that!” when i was preparing thhis challenge.

(Re)sources:

https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_wrg

https://phoible.org/a/view/2733

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrgamay_language

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/warr1255

http://www.language-archives.org/language/wgy

http://endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3352

https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/y134

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Birds eye of broadwater. This Saturday night on ICTV Clarence Wyles Jnr, a Ranger and a proud Warrgamay man, shares a story of this healing place (Broadwater), where his 'old people' made camp and washed away negativity by swimming in the water.

[linguisten]

Linguistic Diversity Challenge Day 5 — Dyirbal

What is the language called in English and the language itself?

Dyirbal, Djirubal, etc.  

Where is the language spoken?

Southeastern Cape York peninsula, Northern Queensland, Australia

How many people speak the language?

≤ 8, according to 2016 census

Which family does it belong to? What are some of its relatives?

Pama–Nyungan > Dyirbalic >> Dyirbal

Dyirbalic proper: Dyirbal, Warrgamay; Nyawaygic: Wulguru, Nyawaygi

What writing system does the language use?

no standard; Latin with a few digraphs or special characters is used in most publications about Dyirbal

What kind of grammatical features does the language have?

(split) ergativity depending on animacy

a notorious noun class system (”women, fire and dangerous things”)

mother-in-law register, that fell out of regular use by the 1940s

What does the language sound like?

Don’t beat me up, but I’d say like the average Pama-Nyungan language: 

No voicing contrast in consonants, as many nasals as plosives, no fricatives: /p, k, c, t̪, t, ʈ/  :  /m, ŋ, ɲ, n̪, n, ɳ/, plus  /r, ɽ, w, j,l/

Three-vowel system /I, a, u/ with some allophonic variation /u~o, a~e/

What do you find interesting about the language?

Dyirbal was the non-Indoeuropean language I did the obligatory 2-semester “language structure” course when I started studying linguistics; it was the first time I got exposed to ergativity, mother-in-law registers, and the concept of moribund/endangered languages; hence my interest in sociolinguistics and linguistic typology; it also sparked my interest in Australian languages

Refs.: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyirbal_language

http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au/main.php?code=Y123

http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dyir1250

[fla-news]

Clarence Wyles Jnr is a ranger and proud Warrgamay man and explains the significance of the healing place where people made camp and washed away negativity by swimming in the water. Another beautiful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander placename story from our This Place collaboration with ABC Australia and ABC Indigenous. https://ift.tt/34l6Dn8 You can access the extended versions of the This Plce films via the ABC Indigenous YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCIndigenousAU Or on iView: https://ift.tt/2xFWi5S #firstlangauge #Ngardji ABC North Queensland ABC News ABC Indigenous

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'It's part of our healing process and connecting us and identifying, but also it was an opportunity for white people to then tap into this history." Troy Wyles-Whelan talks about why language is so important. ... 'This Place' is an ABC Australia and First Languages Australia project that invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to share the place names they would like to see in public use. What place stories can you share? https://ab.co/2UU9AsA #Warrgamay #firstlanguages ABC North Queensland #iyil2019 #iy2019

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A few words from Warrgamay Language Legend Troy Whelan... #IYIL2019 #languagelengend #firstlanguages #warrgamay #IY2019

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Introducing the beautiful Warrgamay language legend, Bridget Priman. #warrgamay #firstlanguages #languagelegend

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Reviving Indigenous languages through song Melinda Holden and Annalee Pope of First Languages Australia explain how languages which were almost completely lost in the years following colonisation, are being slowly restored in areas around the coast of Central Queensland, and elsewhere in Australia. #Indigenouslanguagesongcompetition #WakkaWakka #Warrgamay ABC RN Life Matters https://ift.tt/2u6BLWO

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Language legend Troy Wyles Whelan has a few words about his language, Warrgamay. #firstlanguages #warrgamay