Dharawal language

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Dharawal
Tharawal
Native to Australia
Region New South Wales
Ethnicity Dharawal, Wodiwodi, Gweagal
Native speakers
27 self-identified speakers (2016 census) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tbh
tbh.html
Glottolog thur1254
AIATSIS [2] S59
ELP Dharawal
Dharag-Neighbors1.png
Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Sydney, New South Wales; [a] Dharawal in   red
Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Dharawal is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

The Dharawal language, also spelt Tharawal and Thurawal, and also known as Wodiwodi and other variants, is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales.

Contents

People of the neighbouring Gandangara clans make mention of the Dharawal language as actually being called Gur Gur. [3]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Velar Alveolar Dental Palatal
Stop bɡdd̪ɟ
Nasal mŋnn̪ɲ
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Approximant wj

Vowels

Vowels are phonemically /a i u/. [4]

Vocabulary

Below is a basic vocabulary list from Blake (1981). [5]

EnglishDharawal
manyuwiny
womanmiga
motherminga
fatherbaba
headwalaar
eyemabura
nosenugur
earguri
mouthgami
tongueḏalany
toothyira
handmaramal
breastnguminyang
stomachbiṉḏi
faecesguning
thighḏara
footḏana
bloodngawu
dogmirigang
snakegari
kangarooburu
possumguruura
fishḏany
spidermaraara
crowwawarnang
sunwuri
moondyadyung
stonegarabang
waterngadyung
campngura
fireganbi
smokegaandi
foodḏangang
meatmandidyang
standḏar
seenand
goyand
getmand
hit, killbulm
Ingayagang
younyindigang
onemiḏang
twobula

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This map is indicative only.

References

  1. ↑ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  2. ↑ S59 Dharawal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ Russell, William (1914). My Recollections. Camden: Camden News Office.
  4. ↑ Eades, Diana K. (1976). The Dharawal and Dhurga Languages of the New South Wales South Coast.
  5. ↑ Blake, Barry J. (1981). Australian Aboriginal languages: a general introduction. London: Angus & Robertson Publishers. ISBN   0-207-14044-8.
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