Written archival Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay

There are many Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay archival materials. The main ones are by Rev William Ridley, R H Mathews, Stephen Wurm, Gerhart Laves and Katie Langloh-Parker. There are many others. These materials use a range of orthographies. They are of varying quality – depending on the skill and theoretical base the writer had access to and on the fluency of the informant. They also display regional variation, and sometimes it is unclear which language is being recorded. The main materials are wordlists, grammars and written text – mainly phrases and sentences. Some of these are published, others handwritten records. There are also incidental records of Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay. The interpretations included here were done by John Giacon, mainly between 1995 and 2014.
Type
collection
Title
Written archival Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay
Alternate Title
Transcriptions of archival Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay
Collection Type
Collection
Access Privileges
School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
10.25911/gdfv-rn43
Significance Statement
Transcriptions of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay written sources, with interpretation of the original texts in current orthography, and notes and comments on the materials. These materials are very important in making older texts accessible to Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay people and also in developing Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay resources such as a Dictionary and grammars.
Brief Description
Transcriptions of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay written sources, with interpretation of the original texts in current orthography, and notes and comments on the materials. The main sources include Rev W Ridley, RH Mathews, Stephen Wurm, Gerhardt Laves and Katie Langloh-Parker.
Full Description
There are many Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay archival materials. The main ones are by Rev William Ridley, R H Mathews, Stephen Wurm, Gerhart Laves and Katie Langloh-Parker. There are many others. These materials use a range of orthographies. They are of varying quality – depending on the skill and theoretical base the writer had access to and on the fluency of the informant. They also display regional variation, and sometimes it is unclear which language is being recorded. The main materials are wordlists, grammars and written text – mainly phrases and sentences. Some of these are published, others handwritten records. There are also incidental records of Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay. The interpretations included here were done by John Giacon, mainly between 1995 and 2014.
Contact Email
jgiacon@ozemail.com.au
Principal Investigator
John Giacon
Collaborators
Peter Thompson, David Nathan
Fields of Research
450108 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander linguistics and languages; 450117 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing; 450118 - Conservation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
Socio-Economic Objective
280114 - Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies; 280116 - Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
Keywords
Yuwaalaraay, Yuwaalayaay, Gamilaraay, John Giacon, Aboriginal languages
Type of Research Activity
Applied Research
Date Coverage
1970
1850
Date of data creation
2024
Year of data publication
2024
Creator(s) for Citation
Giacon
John
Publisher for Citation
The Australian National University Data Commons
Publications
doi.org/10.22459/W.2019
Giacon, John. (2020). Wiidhaa. An Introduction to Gamilaraay [Language text book]. ANU Press Languages
Wiidhaa
hdl.handle.net/1885/132639
Giacon, John. (2017). Yaluu: a recovery grammar of Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay: a description of two New South Wales languages based on 160 years of records
Yaluu
available at yuwaalaraay.com
Ash, Anna., Giacon, John., & Lissarrague, Amanda. (2003). Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay & Yuwaalayaay Dictionary. Five Senses Education/IAD Press
Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay & Yuwaalayaay Dictionary.
Related Websites
Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Guladha; Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay on the net
yuwaalaraay.com
Access Rights Type
Open
Licence
CC-BY-NC-SA - Attribution-NonCommercial-SharedAlike (Version 4.0)
Retention Period
Indefinitely

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