Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Linguistic source materials

Archive Collections / Dr Norman Barnett Tindale / Series AA338/09 / Linguistic source materials

Contents include:

  1. Matthew Flinders's vocabularies
    These 2pp. , foolscap, contain notes and vocabulary drawn from Flinders's A Voyage to Terra Australis, 1814. Included are the vocabularies from King George Sound (WA) and Van Diemens Land (i.e., Tasmania) Vol.I, p.67; and from Caledon Bay (NT), Vol.II, p.215;

  2. Vocabularies of Wakka Wakka, Kiramai, Wulili and Kitapul
    This is includes 13pp. of photocopies of John Mathew's 'Vocabulary of the Wakka Wakka'; 'Vocabulary of (i) the Kiramai language, Herbert River, Queensland, and of (ii) the Wulili language, Auburn, Redbank, Camboon, Walloor on the Dawson'; and 'Vocabulary of Kitapul, spoken about Allora, Killarney and generally the source of the Codamine and the Logan Rivers', in Report of the --- Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol.18 pp. 540-547; 547-550 and 550-552 respectively;

  3. Fraser's 'Native Vocabulary' survey booklet
    A blank copy of Malcolm AC Fraser's survey booklet, published in 1904, requesting information on 'the Language, Customs, and Habits of the Aboriginal Natives of Western Australia';

  4. List of native animals, Central Australia
    This includes two 17pp. typescript copies of 'List of native animals' names obtained by collaboration between Dr Ken Hale and A Newsome 1959-1960 in Central Australia'. This apparently unpublished paper includes words for fauna in Central Australian languages, such as: Arrernte, Warlpiri, Pintupi, Alyawarre, Luritja, Anmatyerre, and Kaytej; and

  5. Pitjandjara language course notes
    This is a 50pp. photocopied and bound typescript entitled: 'Pitjandjara Language: Elementary and Intermediate courses taught by W. H. Douglas 2-18 January 1969 at the University of Adelaide, Australia'. The first page is rubber stamped 'Dr. John Greenway' (i.e., one of Tindale's American research associates), suggesting that Tindale borrowed and made copies of Greenway's course notes. Note that the corresponding set of course audiotapes is not located in the South Australian Museum archive.

  6. W.H. Douglas 1952ms
    This is a typescript entitled: 'Description of Australian Aboriginal Language Spoken at Ooldea, South Australia. 1952. Part 1. Phonology'.

Creator: Dr Norman Barnett Tindale
Control: AA 338/9/2
Date Range:  1930  -  1970
Quantity:  8.5cm,   1   type 2 box
Series:  AA338/09
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