G40: Ngulupulu

AIATSIS code: 
G40
AIATSIS reference name: 
Ngulupulu

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Thesaurus heading people
ABN name
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ABS name
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Horton name
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Ethnologue name
Pitta Pitta [Ngurlubulu]
ISO 639-3 code
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Tindale name
Karanja (Ngulubulu)
Tindale (1974)
Karenya, Kurrana (['karana] = man), Mooraboola (place name) Moorloobulloo, Ngulubulu (language name), Ooloopooloo (faulty hearing and recording of name).
O'Grady et al (1966)
Glottocode
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Other sources
Ngulupulu, Moorloobulloo, Ngulubulu, Ooloopooloo [Blake 1979:184] Ngulubulu (Elkin), Mooraboola (Tindale), Moorloobulloo (Curr), Ooloopooloo (Roth), Ulupulu (Roth), and Muralula (Capell), Ooloopoolooloo (Duncan-Kemp) [Blake and Breen 1971:170]
Synonyms
Pitta Pitta, Karanya, Karenya, Kurrana, Mooraboola Moorloobulloo, Ngulubulu, Ooloopooloo
Comment
Comments: 
According to Blake (1979:183), Pitta-Pitta G6, Ringu-Ringu G7, Mayawarli L40, Kunkalanya G3, Ngulupulu, Karanya L32, and Rakaya G4 are dialects of a language for which there is no obvious name. Tindale (1974) treats Ngulubulu (G40) as a language name - it is the language spoken by the Karanja L32 group. Breen apparently collected data (Breen PMS 2929).
References: 
  • Roth, Walter Edmund. 1897. Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines. Brisbane: Government Printer.
  • Blake, Barry & Gavan Breen. 1971. The Pitta-Pitta dialects: Linguistic Communications 4. Melbourne: Monash University.
  • Breen, Gavan. 1967. Ngulupulu. (PMS 2929).
  • Blake, Barry. 1979. Pitta-Pitta, in Dixon, R M W and Blake, Barry. Handbook of Australian languages vol. 1. Canberra: ANU Press
Status: 
Confirmed
Location
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SA
Location information: 
... at Bedourie (Roth 1897 as quoted in Blake and Breen 1971:10).
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Speakers
Year Source Speaker numbers
1975Oates-
1984Senate-
1990Schmidt-
1996Census-
2001Census-
2004NILS1-
2005Estimate-
2006Census-
2011Census-
2014NILS2
2016Census-
2018-2019NILS3

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
SourceFamilyGroupSub-groupNameRelationship
Ethnologue (2005)Pama-NyunganKarnicPalkuPitta Pitta [Ngurlubulu]Pitta Pitta [dialects: Related to Gangalanya, Garanya, Lhanima, Ngurlubulu, Ragaya, Rangwa, Yurlayurlanya, which may be extinct, and Wanggamala.]
Dixon (2002)LAKE EYRE BASIN AREAL GROUPNorth and west Lake Eyre Basin group Blake and Breen (1971)NgulupuluPitta-Pitta (Pitha-Pitha)* Blake (1979b) further dialects: Ringu-Ringu, Rakaya, Ngulupulu, Karanja, Kunkalanja, Mayawarli
Wurm (1994)Pama-NyunganKarnicNgurlubulu
Walsh (1981)Pama-NyunganKarnicPalkuNgurlubulu
Oates (1975)
Wurm (1972)Karanya (Ngulupulu)
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)