E28: Wakka Wakka^ | AIATSIS Collection

AIATSIS code:

E28

AIATSIS reference name:

Wakka Wakka^

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Name

Thesaurus heading language	Wakka Wakka language E28
Thesaurus heading people	Wakka Wakka people E28
ABN name	Wakka Wakka language (Previously Wakawaka language)
ABS name	-
Horton name	Waka Waka
Ethnologue name	Wakawaka
ISO 639-3 code	wkw
Tindale name	Wakawaka
Tindale (1974)	Waa (valid alternative), Wakka-wakka, Waka, Wakka, Woga, Wokka, Wakar, Wakkar, Wackar, Waku-wuka, Wogga, Wuka Wuka, ? Nukunukubara, Wapa (Kabikabi term meaning 'inlanders'), Wa:bar (applied to several tribes), Mungar (spotted gum tree people); ['waka] = no.
O'Grady et al (1966)	Wakkawakka, Waka, Woga, Wokka, Wogga, Wokkari, Nukunukubara, Wa
Glottocode	waka1274
Other sources	Woga (E. Cunningham 1887, O'Connor 1887), Wogga (O'Connor 1887), Woka (Landsborough and Curr 1887), Wokka (Illidge 1887, Armitage n.d.), Wacca-Wacca (Gir-oonbah 1894, Meston n.d.), Wakar/Wackar (Shirley 1896), Wuka Wuka (Ross 1904), Wakka Wakka (Mathew 1910), Waka (Parry-Okeden 1914), Wakka (Watson 1943/4), Waka Waka (Winterbotham 1957), Wagawaga (Capell 1963), Wakawaka (Tindale 1938), Woka-Woka (Hall n.d.a), Wakka-Wakka (Holmer 1983) [Kite and Wurm 2004:4]
Synonyms	Waga Waga, Wakawaka, Waka Waka, Bujiebara, Dungibara, Dungidau, Garumga, Garumngar, Kaiabara, Enibura, Gowrburra, Koolaburra, Mungar, Nukunukubara, Wa, Wabar, Waa, Wacca Wacca, Wackar, Waka, Wakar, Wakka, Wakka wakka, Wakkar, Wakkawakka, Waku wuka, Wapa, Wilili, Wililililee, Willillee, Woga, Wogga, Wokka, Wokkari, Wuka Wuka, Wuli wuli, Wulili, Wagawaga, Woka, Wakar/Wackar, Woka Woka

Comment

Comments:

Kite and Wurm describe Waga-Waga (E28) as a language and a dialect, other dialects being Duungidjawu E20, Wuli-Wuli E89, Djagunda E27, Dala E25, Barunggam D40, Nalbo E90 and Giabal D41 (2004:4).

Terrill refers to a ms 'The Waga Waga language of South East Queensland: A sketch grammar' (Dinneen 1988) which describes Waga-Waga having one laminal series, five vowels, one rhotic; separate forms for nominals in Subject, Object and Agent roles in a sentence; three verb conjugations; a causative affix -ma- and no marking for transitivity in verbs. Complement clauses are embedded (in Terrill, 1998:126).

See also Yiman E31.

References:

Capell, Arthur. 1963. Linguistic survey of Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Kite, Suzanne, and Stephen A. Wurm. 2004. The Duungidjawu language of southeast Queensland: grammar, texts and vocabulary: Pacific Linguistics 553. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Jones, Stephen. 1990. A submerged history :Baroon, Aborigines and white invasion. Maleny, Qld.: Stephen Jones.
Mathew, John. 1910. Two representative tribes of Queensland : with an inquiry concerning the origin of the Australian race
London:Fisher, Unwin.
Terrill, Angela. 1998. Biri A salvage study of a Queensland language; Honours thesis ANU. MS 3262.

Status:

Confirmed

Location

State / Territory:

QLD

Location information:

... to the west and northwest of the Dungidjau. Bounded in the east by the Brisbane River and Jimna Range. Extending as far north as Gayndah and Mundubbera on the Burnett River and went west to the Boyne River and Bunya Mountains (Tennant-Kelly 1935 Tribes on Cherburg Settlement, Queensland as quoted in Kite and Wurm 2004:6). Nanango north to Mount Perry behind Coast Range; west to Boyne Rive, Upper Burnett River and Mundubbera; at Kingaroy, Murgon and Gayndah (Capell 1963 E59).

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Word list

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Programs

Activities:

People:

Suzanne Kite, Stephen Wurm,

Indigenous organisations:

Gidarjil Development Corporation - https://www.gidarjil.com.au/

Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture - https://www.yugambeh.com/

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	Less than 20 pages	1
Text Collection	None	0
Grammar	A few articles	1
Audio-visual	Less than 1	1

Manuscript note:

Grammar:

Dictionary:

Classification

Source	Family	Group	Sub-group	Name	Relationship
Ethnologue (2005)	Pama-Nyungan	Waka-Kabic	Miyan	Wakawaka	Wakawaka [dialects: Duungidjawu, Wagawaga. Related to Wuliwuli, Barunggam, Gayabara, Muringam, which may be extinct.]
Dixon (2002)		CENTRAL EAST COAST GROUP	Waka-Gabi areal group	Waga-Waga	Waga-Waga Kite (2000) further dialects: Wuli-Wuli, Dala, Djakunda, Barunggam, Duungidjawu
Wurm (1994)	Pama-Nyungan	Waka-Kabic		Waga
Walsh (1981)	Pama-Nyungan	Waka-Kabic	Miyan	Wagawaga (Wakawaka) (dialect of Waga)	Waga [dialects: Wagawaga (Wakawaka), Dalla, Ngalbu (Nalbo), Dungibara, Garumga, Duungidjawu]
Oates (1975)	Pama-Nyungan	Waka-Kabic	Miyan	Waga-Waga
Wurm (1972)	Pama-Nyungan	Waka-Kabic	Miyan	Wakawaka
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)	Pama-Nyungan	Waka-Kabic	Miyan	Wakawaka