L1: Narungga/Nharangga | AIATSIS Collection

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Narungga/Nharangga

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Name

Thesaurus heading language	Narungga language L1
Thesaurus heading people	Narungga people L1
ABN name	-
ABS name	Narungga
Horton name	Narangga
Ethnologue name	Narungga
ISO 639-3 code	nnr
Tindale name	Narangga
Tindale (1974)	Narrangga, Narranga, Narrang-gu, Narrang-u, Nar-anga (Ngadjuri term), Narunga, Adjadura (['ngadja 'tura] 'my people'), Adjahdurah, Turra, Wallaroo tribe (a horde), Murinandji (eastern and Ngadjuri name for the tribe). Moor-in-nunjie.
O'Grady et al (1966)	Naranga, Nanunga, Narranga, Narranggu, Narrangu, Adjahdurah, Turra
Glottocode	naru1238
Other sources	-
Synonyms	Nharangga, Narangka, Narangga, Adjabdurah, Adjadura, Adjahdurah, Adjahdural, Moor in nunjie, Murinandji, Nanunga, Naranga, Narrang gu, Narrang u, Narranga, Narrangga, Narranggu, Narrangu, Narunga, Narrunga, Turra, Wallaroo tribe, Nar anga

Comment

Comments:

Narangga is a member of the Thura-Yura L63 sub-group of Pama-Nyungan. Other members include Kaurna L3; Ngadjuri L5; Nukunu L4; Barngala L6; Adnyamathanha L10; Kuyani L9; Nauo L2 and Wirangu C1, which exhibits some differences with the Thura-Yura languages. One particular cultural-linguistic feature uniquely Thura-Yura is the use of ten birth-order names. Another are the regular pronoun forms unique to the sub-group (Simpson & Hercus 2004:179).

References:

Eira, Christina. 2010. Fragments of Budderer's waddy: a new Narungga grammar. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Hercus, Luise Anna. 1992. A Nukunu dictionary. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, The Faculties, Australian National University.
Mobile Language Team. <https://www.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/languages/narungga >, viewed 3rd October 2019..
Oates, William J. & Lynette F. Oates. 1970. A revised linguistic survey of Australia: Australian Aboriginal Studies 33, Linguistic Series 12. Canberra: AIAS.
Simpson, J & L Hercus. 2004. Thura-Yura as a subgroup, in (Bowern & Koch eds) Australian Languages : classification and the comparative method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins.
Sutton, T.M. 1887. The Adjahdurah tribe of Aborigines on Yorke's Peninsula: some of their early customs and traditions. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch Proceedings, vol. 2, pp. 17-19. (p SUT)
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:

Confirmed

Location

State / Territory:

Location information:

Yorke Peninsula; north to Port Broughton; east to Hummock Range; at Bute, Wallaroo, Ardrossan, Marion Bay, and Cape Spencer. Four named hordes are known (Tindale 1974).

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Programs

Activities:

The South Australian Education Dept produced a teacher's guide in 1988. Ngarrindjeri, Narrunga and Kaurna Languages Project made a tape with songs (1990). Narungga People's Language Project and Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association have been running language programs and making resources (2006). The Narungga Language Teaching Program was launched in October 2008. The partnership between Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association (NAPA), local schools and the Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS) resulted in the development of a structured curriculum and resources and the involvement of Narungga people in the teaching of the language in schools (Eira 2010:18). The Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association is planning to establish a community resource centre to encourage the use and learning of the Narungga language outside school hours by adults and children (Eira 2010:18).

People:

Christina Eira, Catherine Ellis, Tania Wanganeen, Guy Tunstill

Indigenous organisations:

Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association
18 Caroline Street Maitland SA 5573
(08) 8834 2125:

Speakers

Year	Source	Speaker numbers
1975	Oates	0
1984	Senate	-
1990	Schmidt	-
1996	Census	-
2001	Census	-
2004	NILS1	-
2005	Estimate	-
2006	Census	24
2011	Census	46
2014	NILS2
2016	Census	25
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	Small (20-100 pages)	2
Text Collection	Small (20-100 pages)	2
Grammar	Small grammar (100-200 pages)	3
Audio-visual	1-10	2

Manuscript note:

tape transcription/field note available (vocabulary)

Grammar:

Wanganeen, Tania and Eira, Christina. 2006. The fragments of Budderer's waddy: a new Narungga grammar resource. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.

Eira, Christina. 2010. Fragments of Budderer's waddy: a new Narungga grammar. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Dictionary:

Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association. 2006. Nharangga Warra: Narungga dictionary. Maitland, S.A.: Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association. Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association. 2006. Guungagu Nharangga Warra: Children's Narungga dictionary. Maitland, S.A.: Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association.

Classification

Source	Family	Group	Sub-group	Name	Relationship
Ethnologue (2005)	Pama-Nyungan	South-West	Yura	Narungga	Narungga [dialects: Adjabdurah (Adjahdurah), Turra.]
Dixon (2002)		SPENCER GULF BASIN AREAL GROUP		Narangka	Kadli Teichelmann and Schürmann (1840) dialects: Kaurna, Nantuwara, Ngadjuri, Narangka, Nukunu
Wurm (1994)	Pama-Nyungan	South-West		Narungga
Walsh (1981)	Pama-Nyungan	South-West	Yura	Narungga
Oates (1975)	Pama-Nyungan	Southern Western Desert Type	Yura	Narangga
Wurm (1972)	Pama-Nyungan	Southwest (or Nyungic)	Yura	Narangga
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)	Pama-Nyungan	Southwest	Yura	Narangga