Worrorra: a language of the north-west Kimberley coast Contributor(s): Clendon, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1922064564 ISBN-13: 9781922064561 Publisher: University of Adelaide Press OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2014 |
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BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages |
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (2.70 lbs) 516 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Kimberley Arafuran language Worrorra was spoken traditionally on the remote coastline and precipitously beautiful hinterland between the Walcott Inlet and the Prince Regent River. The language described here is that attested by its last full speakers, Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah. Patsy Lulpunda was a child when Europeans first entered her country in 1912, and Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah both grew up on the Kunmunya mission. This comprehensive and detailed grammar provides as well an historical and cultural context for a society now drastically altered. In the 1950s Worrorra people left their traditional land and from the 1970s the number of people speaking Worrorra as their first language declined dramatically. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clendon, Mark: - Mark Clendon is an anthropological linguist at the University of Adelaide, who has published widely on linguistic prehistory and west Australian languages. His publications include transcriptions and translations of texts in the Western Desert Language, Warnman, Worrorra and Nyangumarta. They include the transcription and translation, with Barbara Hale, of Monty Hale's award-winning autobiography Kurlumarniny: we came from the desert (2012). |