Taribelang language

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Bunda
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Bunda, ?Taribelang
Extinct (recent)
Dialects
  • Gureng-Gureng
  • Guweng-Guweng
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gnr
Glottolog gure1255
AIATSIS [1] E33 E32, E33  Gureng-Gureng, Taribelang, E36  Goeng-Goeng
ELP Gureng Gureng

Taribelang, also known as bunda, is a language of Queensland. Although no longer spoken as a native language by the Taribelang or Bunda people, it is spoken as a 2nd or 3rd language by under 100. There exists some confusion between Austlang's (AIATSIS) E33: Taribelang and E36: Goeng Goeng languages. [2]

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Accent

Today some speakers have a "heavier" more guttural way of speaking, e.g. rolling the tongue when pronouncing the "rr's", starting words with Ng rather than a single N and also heavier speakers sound out a "dj" sound rather than "ch" or "t". "Heavier" speakers tend to be the more western groups from along the Burnett River of Queensland.

The more coastal families today seem to have a "lighter" way of speaking (less guttural & not rolling the tongue and using the single N at the start of words rather than the Ng & using "ch" & "t" rather than "dj" etc.) which is most likely the result of the influence of the English language in recent times.

Map of traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal people around Brisbane Map of Traditional Lands of Australian Aboriginal peoples in SE Qld.png
Map of traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal people around Brisbane

Language revival

Since 2017, the Central Queensland Language Centre has been working on helping to restore three languages from the region – Yiiman, Byelle (Biyali) and Taribelang. [3] As of 2020, Taribelang is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers". [4]

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References

  1. E33 E32, E33 Gureng-Gureng, Taribelang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies   (see the info box for additional links)
  2. "Austlang". AIATSIS.
  3. Wang, Amy Chien-Yu; Apostolou, Panos (2 July 2017). "Indigenous languages at risk". SBS Greek. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Retrieved 13 January 2020.