S14: Meintangk | AIATSIS Collection

AIATSIS code:

S14

AIATSIS reference name:

Meintangk

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Thesaurus heading language	Meintangk language S14
Thesaurus heading people	Meintangk people S14
ABN name	-
ABS name	-
Horton name	Ngarrindjeri (Meintangk)
Ethnologue name	-
ISO 639-3 code	-
Tindale name	Meintangk
Tindale (1974)	Meintank, Painbali (Tanganekald term), Paintjunga (horde at Penola), Pinchunga, Pinejunga, Mootatunga, Wepulprap (i.e., 'southern people' of the Tanganekald, term applied to more than one tribe).
O'Grady et al (1966)	-
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Other sources	-
Synonyms	Ngarrindjeri, Jarildukald, Pirtulun, Ramindjeri, Tanganukald, Warki, Djadjala, Meintank, Painbali, Wergaia, Meindangg, Meinta:ngk, Paintjunga, Pinchunga, Pinejunga, Mootatunga, Wepulprap

Comment

Comments:

According to McDonald (2002:12), Tindale's Meintangk S14 may be a sub-set of the Coorong group, the Thangani S11. However, the area for Meintangk described by Tindale covers a much larger area than that shown in McDonald's maps, further to the north, north-east and east of this area. O'Connor (1994:24) says it is believed there were seven groups, using the location reported in Tindale (from Lacepede Bay, north to Granite Rocks near Kingston, south to Cape Jaffa and east to Lucindale, Blackford, Keilira and Naracoorte, and inland from Lake Hawdon to Mosquito Creek) and noting that 'the horde whose land was in the Penola area was known as the Pinchunga or Pinejunga S78 and one south east from Kingston, the Witchinjunga S72'. Further, Berndt and Berndt (1993) report what Tindale identifies as Meindangk as being distinct from (though adjacent to) Tangani S11; Tangani being related to Yaralde S8, a dialect of Ngarrindjeri S69, and Meintangk being part of the 'Milipi' language. The name Milipi may correspond to what Smith (1880:ix) describes as the five groups of the south-east (of South Australia), 'each occupying its own territory and using different dialects of the same language', comprising Booandik S13, Pinechunga S78, Moatatunga S76, Wichantunga S72, and Polijunga S79. Though they use it as a language name, Berndt and Berndt do not seem certain of the status of the name, noting that it 'was probably a clan name'. Consequently, Milipi is not included in this database, nor as a language heading in the Thesaurus. Campbell's (1934) description of the Pengangka group may be Meintangk, based on both the location and the similarity of the name, as might Taplin's (1879) 'Penola tribe' vocabulary.

References:

Berndt, R.M. & C.H. Berndt. 1993. A world that was: the Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. (B B524.88/W2)
Campbell, 1934. Notes on the Aborigines of the south-east of South Australia, Part 1. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 58, pp. 22-32. (RS 50/8)
Capell, Arthur. 1963. Linguistic survey of Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
McDonald, Maryalyce. 2002. A study of the phonetics and phonology of Yaraldi and associated dialects. München: Lincom Europa.
O'Connor, Pam. 1994. The Aboriginal people of the south east, from the past to the present. Naracoorte, SA: South East Book Promotions.
Taplin, George. 1879. The folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian Aborigines. Adelaide: Government Printer. (RB T173.52/F1)
Tindale, Norman B. 1974. Aboriginal tribes of Australia: their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits, and proper names. Berkeley: University of California Press/Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Status:

Unconfirmed

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Location information:

Lacepede Bay; north to the Granite Rocks 12 miles (19 km.) north of Kingston; south to Cape Jaffa; east to Lucindale, Blackford, Keilira, and Naracoorte; inland from Lake Hawdon to Mosquito Creek. There were seven known hordes (Tindale 1974).

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Speakers

Year	Source	Speaker numbers
1975	Oates	-
1984	Senate	-
1990	Schmidt	-
1996	Census	-
2001	Census	-
2004	NILS1	-
2005	Estimate	-
2006	Census	-
2011	Census	-
2014	NILS2
2016	Census	-
2018-2019	NILS3

Speaker numbers were measured differently across the censuses and various other sources listed in AUSTLANG. You are encouraged to refer to the sources.

Speaker numbers for ‘NILS 2004’ and ‘2005 estimate’ come from 'Table F.3: Numbers of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages (various surveys)' in 'Appendix F NILS endangerment and absolute number results' in McConvell, Marmion and McNicol 2005, pages 198-230 (PDF, 2.5MB).

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Classification

Source	Family	Group	Name	Relationship
Ethnologue (2005)
Dixon (2002)
Wurm (1994)
Walsh (1981)	Pama-Nyungan	Ngarinyeric-Yithayithic	Meinta:ngk	Ngarinyeri (Narrinyeri) [dialects: Warki, Tanganalun, Meinta:ngk, Raminyeri, Portawulun, Yaraldi]
Oates (1975)	Unclassified		Meindangg
Wurm (1972)
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)