A19: Wardal | AIATSIS Collection

AIATSIS code:

A19

AIATSIS reference name:

Wardal

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Name

Thesaurus heading language	Wardal language A19
Thesaurus heading people	Wardal people A19
ABN name	-
ABS name	-
Horton name	Wawula (Wardal)
Ethnologue name	-
ISO 639-3 code	-
Tindale name	Wardal
Tindale (1974)	Tjitijamba (an indeterminate term sometimes given for this tribe), Tjitjijamba, Waula (means 'northerners' applied by Pini).
O'Grady et al (1966)	Wajari
Glottocode	-
Other sources	-
Synonyms	Wawula, Madoitja, Wirdinja, Wajari, Wardalj, Tjitijamba, Tjitjijamba, Waula

Comment

Comments:

According to Bates (1913), Wardal means 'north' and refers to a group who speaks Wajarri A39, while Tindale says the basic meaning of Wardal is 'west' or by extension 'westerners'. Thus, it seems Wardal may be a compass term and not refer to a specific language.

References:

Bates, Daisy M. 1913. Aboriginal names of places. Science of Man 14(4):74-76.
Brandenstein, Carl G. von. 1967. The language situation in the Pilbara - past and present. In Papers in Australian Linguistics 2, 1-20a, + 27 maps. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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.

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Location information:

West and northwest of Lake Carnegie to Goodwin Soak on the Canning Stock Route, thence west to the Old Bald Hill Station near Beyond Bluff. South to near Lake Nabberu (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).

Documentation

Type	Documentation Status	Documentation Score
Word list	None	0
Text Collection	None	0
Grammar	None	0
Audio-visual	None	0

Manuscript note:

tape transcription/field note available (Bates - unclear status)

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Classification

Source	Family	Group	Sub-group	Name
Ethnologue (2005)
Dixon (2002)
Wurm (1994)
Walsh (1981)
Oates (1975)	Pama-Nyungan	Western Desert Proper	Wati	Wardalj
Wurm (1972)	Pama-Nyungan	Southwest (or Nyungic)	Kardu	Wardal
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)	Pama-Nyungan	Southwest	Kardu	Wardal