Yolŋu Matha
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| Yolngu Matha | ||
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| Spoken in: | Northern Territory, Australia | |
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| Language family: | Pama-Nyungan Yolngu Matha |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: dji – Djinang dhg – Dhangu duj – Dhuwal djb – Djinba rit – Ritharngu dsx – Dhay'yi dji – Yan-nhangu jay – Jarnango dax – Dayi djr – Djambarrpuyngu gnn – Gumatj guf – Gupapuyngu |
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Yolŋu Matha is the language group of the Yolngu (Yolŋu), the Indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia. (Yolŋu = people, Matha = tongue).
Yolŋu Matha consists of twelve different dialects, each with its own Yolŋu name. While there is extensive variation between these dialects, there is generally common mutual intelligibility, hence the umbrella group of Yolngu Matha. The linguistic situation is very complicated, since each of the 25 or so clans also has a named language variety. The dialects or separate language as used by the Ethnologue are:
- Dhangu
- Jarnango
- Dhuwal
- Dayi
- Djambarrpuyngu
- Dhuwal
- Gumatj
- Gupapuyngu
- Ritarungo
- Djinang
- Djinba
- Djinang
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[edit] See also
Ten Canoes - a film largely in Yolŋu Matha.
[edit] Dictionaries and resources
Dictionaries have been produced by Beulah Lowe, David Zorc and Michael Christie. A public-domain version of Beulah Lowe's dictionary is available as a pdf file[1].
There are also several grammars of Yolngu languages by Jeffrey Heath, Frances Morphy, Melanie Wilkinson and others [2].
[edit] Words and expressions
- Gakal = the action or syptom of progression in an illness
- Gapumirr = watery [1].
[edit] References
- ^ Trudgen, Richard, 2000, 'Thirteen years of wanting to know', Why worriers lie down and die, Adoriginal Resource and Development Services, Inc. Darwin, pp. 97-112
- Aboriginal Resource and Development Services (ARDS) [3]
- Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Yolŋu Matha course [4]
- ARDS Rhombuy Dhäwu: Legal English-Yolngu Matha Online Dictionary [5]]
- Trudgen, Richard, Why Warriors Lie Down & Die [6], ARDS, Darwin, 2000.
- Examples of Yolngu Matha being spoken[7]
- Radio National story
- Watson, Helen and David Wade Chambers (with the Yolngu community at Yirrkala). Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Deakin University.
- Madayin Law in Yolngu and English
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