The Yaran language, also called Bindjali,[2][a] is an extinct language spoken around the Padthaway district by the Bodaruwitj. William Haynes, an earlier resident of the area, provided E.M.Curr with two distinct vocabularies of the area, which he designated as that of the Tatiara.[6] Norman Tindale compiled a word-list relying on information supplied to him by Milerum, whose mother Lakwunami was a Potaruwutj from the Keilira region.[7] R.M: Dixon managed to elicit a vocabulary of Bindjali from a Bordertown informant, Bertie Pinkie, as late as 1973.[1] In his classification, Polinjunga, one of the alternative names for the Bodaruwitj, or a clan name of the same, is listed as a dialect of the Bungandidj-Kuurn Kopan Noot subgroup of the Kulinic languages.[8]
| Yaran | |
|---|---|
| Bindjali, Bodaruwitj | |
| Potaruwutj | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | South Australia |
| Ethnicity | Bodaruwitj |
| Era | last attested 1973 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| AIATSIS[1] | S15 Bindjali / Bodaruwitj |
Notes
edit- ^ R. H. Mathews identified a Tyattyalla language,[3] now written Djadjala, spoken between the Werringen and Albacutya lakes and provided some grammatical and vocabulary notes. Norman Tindale regarded Tyattyalla as a heteronym both for the Wotjobaluk[4] and the Bodaruwitj.[5] The Wotjobaluk ranged over into Tatiara country, which is usually taken to be Bodaruwitj country. (Tindale 1974, p. 208)
References
edit- ^ a b S15 Bindjali / Bodaruwitj at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Lawson 1879, p. 59.
- ^ Mathews 1902, pp. 71–106, 77.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 208.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 218.
- ^ Haynes 1887, pp. 456–459.
- ^ Gale & Sparrow 2010, p. 398.
- ^ Dixon 2004, p. xxxv.
- Lawson, Robert (1879). "The Padthaway tribe" (PDF). In Taplin, George (ed.). Folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian aborigines. Adelaide: E Spiller, Acting Government Printer. pp. 58–59.
- Mathews, Robert Hamilton (1902). "The Aboriginal languages of Victoria" (PDF). Royal Society of New South Wales - Journal and Proceedings. 36: 71–106. doi:10.5962/p.359381. S2CID 259291856.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Potaruwutj (SA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Haynes, William (1887). "The Tatiara Country" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian Race: Its Origins, Language, Customs, Places of Landing and The Routes by which it spread Itself over that continent. Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 456–459.
- Gale, Mary-Ann; Sparrow, Syd (2010). "Bringing the language home: the Ngarrindjeri dictionary project". In Hobson, John Robert (ed.). Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages. Sydney University Press. pp. 387–401. ISBN 978-1-920-89955-4.
- Dixon, Robert M. W. (2004) [First published 2002]. Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.