S63: Wanarruwa | AIATSIS Collection

AIATSIS code:

S63

AIATSIS reference name:

Wanarruwa

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Name

Thesaurus heading language	Wanarruwa language S63
Thesaurus heading people	Wonnarua people S63
ABN name	-
ABS name	-
Horton name	Wonnarua
Ethnologue name	Awabakal [Wonarua]
ISO 639-3 code	-
Tindale name	Wonnarua
Tindale (1974)	Wonnuaruah, Wannerawa, Wonarua, Wonnah Kuah (typographical error).
O'Grady et al (1966)	Wonarua, Wonnarua, Wannerawa,
Glottocode	-
Other sources	Wonaruah [ALRRC] Wanarruwa [Wafer & Lissarrague 2008]
Synonyms	Wonarua, Awabakal, Wanarua, Wonnuaruah, Wannerawa, Wonnah Kuah

Comment

Comments:

Lissarrague (2006:8) describes the Hunter River - Lake Macquarie language S99 spoken by people now known as Awabakal S66, Kuringgai S62, Wonnarua (S63) and possibly Geawegal E1.

In her later work (Wafer & Lissarrague 2008:164-165) Wanarruwa (S63) is treated as the name of a dialect of the Hunter River - Lake Macquarie language S99.

References:

Jones, Sharon, Albert Burgman & Jim Wafer. 2019. Wanarruwa Beginner's Guide. Nambucca Heads: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative.
Lissarrague, Amanda. 2006. A salvage grammar and wordlist of the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie. Nambucca Heads, N.S.W. : Muurrbay Language and Culture Centre.
NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre. c2007. Sydney : NSW Dept of Aboriginal Affairs. CDROM.
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.
Wafer, Jim, and Amanda Lissarrague. 2008. A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Nambucca Heads: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative.

Status:

Confirmed

Location

State / Territory:

NSW

Location information:

... in the upper Hunter Valley Hunter River/Hunter Valley (Lissarrague 2006:12). ... in the upper Hunter Valley region, in the areas including the towns of Singleton, Muswellbrook and Scone (ALRRC). Upper Hunter River from a few miles above Maitland west to Dividing Range. The southern boundary with the Darkinjang is on the divide north of Wollombi (Tindale 1974). ... along the middle reaches of the Hunter River (Wafer & Lissarrague 2008).

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Programs

Activities:

Many Rivers Aboriginal Language Centre is running the Awabakal & Wonnarua (HRLM) Language Revitalisation program and is currently producing 'A Learner's Guide to the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie (HRLM)' based on Lissarrague's published grammar (2007).

People:

Sharon Edgar-Jones, Amanda Lissarrague, Many Rivers Aboriginal Language Centre

Indigenous organisations:

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	11-50

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).

Documentation

Type	Documentation Status	Documentation Score
Word list	Less than 20 pages	1
Text Collection	Less than 20 pages	1
Grammar	Small grammar (100-200 pages)	3
Audio-visual	None	0

Manuscript note:

not available

Grammar:

Lissarrague, Amanda. 2006. A Salvage Grammar and Wordlist of the Language from the Hunter River & Lake Macquarie. Nambucca Heads: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative.

Dictionary:

Wordlist in Lissarrague 2006.

Classification

Source	Family	Group	Sub-group	Name	Relationship
Ethnologue (2005)	Pama-Nyungan	Worimi		Awabakal [Wonarua]	Awabakal [dialects: Awabagal, Cameeragal, Wonarua]
Dixon (2002)		CENTRAL NEW SOUTH WALES GROUP	Awabagal/Gadjang subgroup*	Wonarua	Awabagal Threlkeld (1834) further dialects: Cameeragal, Wonarua
Wurm (1994)
Walsh (1981)
Oates (1975)	Pama-Nyungan	Yuin-Kuric	Kuri	Wanarua
Wurm (1972)	Pama-Nyungan	Yuin-Kuric	Kuri	Wanarua
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)	Pama-Nyungan	Yuin-Kuric	Kuri	Wanarua