N75: Gurr-goni

AIATSIS Code: 
N75
AIATSIS Reference name: 
Gurr-goni

tab group

Name
ABN Name
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ABS Name
Gurr-goni
Horton Name
Gungurugoni
Ethnologue name
Guragone
ISO 639-3 code
gge
Tindale name
Gungorogone
Thesaurus heading
Gurrgoni / Guragone / Gungurugoni language (N75) (NT SD53-02)
Tindale (1974)
Gungoragone, Gungoro:lgo:ngi, Gungarawoni, Gungurulgungi
O'Grady et al (1966)
Glottocode
gura1252
Other sources
Gurrgoni, Gurugoni, Gungoragoni, Gungorragonni [Top End Handbook]
Synonyms
Gurrgoni
Gungorrogone
Gudjartabiyi
Guragone
Gungurugoni
Gungorogone
Gorogone
Gungarawoni
Gungoragone
Gungoro:lgo:ngi
Gungurulgungi
Gutjertabia
Gurugoni
Gungoragoni
Gungorragonni
Comment
Language comment
Gurr-goni (N75) is a non-Pama Nyungan language from north central Arnhem Land. There are three Gurr-goni clans, two from the Yirrtjinga moiety, An-dirrdjalaba and Boburerre and one from the Djowunga moiety, Gurlumarrarra. There are two dialects (distinguished by vocabulary) in Gurr-goni, one spoken by An-dirrdjalaba and Boburerre and one by Gurlumarrarra ... Language and personal identity is affiliated with father’s language ... (Green & Nimbadja, 2015:1-2). Based on a comparison of verb tense/status suffixes, Green classifies Burarra N82, Gurr-goni (N75), Ndjebbana N74 and Nakkara N80 as a ‘Maningrida subgroup’ of the larger Gunwinjguan language family, a refinement of the earlier classification of Gurr-goni as a member of the 'Bureran' family (Capell, Voegelin & Voegelin in Green, 1995:4-5). Glasgow describes Gurrgoni or Gun-gurrgoni (N75) as a dialect of the Burarra N82 Language Family (1994:7).
References

Coleman, Carolyn. Comparative wordlists in Top End Languages, ASEDA 0632.
Glasgow, Kathleen. 1994. Burarra-Gun-nartpa dictionary : with English finder list. Berrimah, NT: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Green, Rebecca, Leila Nimbadja.2015. Gurr-goni to English dictionary. Batchelor: Batchelor Press.
Green, Rebecca. 1995. A grammar of Gurr-goni (north central Arnhem Land). Australian National University, PhD thesis.https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/9278?mode=full
Harvey, Mark. 2008. Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages: land-language associations at colonisation. AILEC 0802.
Status
Confirmed
Location
State
NT
Location information
Eastern side of Tonkinson River (Glasgow 1994 Burarra-Gun-nartpa dictionary ) traditional territory - inland from and south of the settlement of Maningrida. Its western border lies along the Tomkinson River. To the north, bordered by Ndjebbana country and Nakkara. In the east, it meets Burarra country just short of the Bitjuwu/Binyjawa swamp, and the Gurr-goni/Burarra border runs south roughly in line with the Cadell River. To the south lie the lands of the Kuninjku speaking Kardbam clan (Green 1995:3-4). The general association was to the floodplain of the Tomkinson River from just behind the coast, but not as far south as the road to Oenpelli, and to the higher country eastwards to the western side of the Cadell River (Harvey ASEDA 802).
Maps
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Catalogue
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Speakers
Speaker table
Oates 1973Senate 1984Schmidt 1990Census 1996Census 2001NILS 20042005 estimateCensus 2006
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Speaker NILS table
1-19 years20-39 years40-59 years60+
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NILS endangerment grade
-
Documentation
Document Score: 
9
Documentation table: 
TypeDocumentation StatusDocumentation Score
Word list1?
Text CollectionSmall (20-100 pages)2
GrammarLarge grammar (more than 200 pages)4
Audio-visual1-102
Manuscript Note: 
tape transcription/field note available
Grammar: 
Green, Rebecca. 1995. A grammar of Gurr-goni (North Central Arnhem Land), Australian National University: PhD.
Dictionary: 
Coleman, Carolyn. Comparative wordlists in Top End Languages, ASEDA 0632.
Programs
Activities: 
-
People: 
Rebecca Green, Vanessa Elwell, Maningrida Literature Production Centre
Indigenous organisations: 
-
Classification
Classification table: 
SourceFamilyGroupSub-groupNameRelationship
Ethnologue (2005)GunwingguanBurarranGuragone
Dixon (2002)ARNHEM LAND GROUPManingrida subgroup*Gurrgoni (or Gungorrogone or Gudjartabiyi)Gurrgoni (or Gungorrogone or Gudjartabiyi) R. Green (1995)
Wurm (1994)BurarranGuragoneGuragone
Walsh (1981)BurarranGuragonicGuragone
Oates (1975)BureranGorogonicGorogone
Wurm (1972)BureranGorogonicGorogone (Gungorogone)
O'Grady, Voegelin & Voegelin (1966)BureranGorogonicGorogone