L40: Maiawali

AIATSIS code: 
L40
AIATSIS reference name: 
Maiawali

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Maiawali language L40
Thesaurus heading people
Maiawali people L40
ABN name
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ABS name
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Horton name
Maiawali
Ethnologue name
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ISO 639-3 code
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Tindale name
Maiawali
Tindale (1974)
Maiali, Majawali, Mailly, Myall, Myallee, Myoli, Myall, Miorli, Majuli (error in 1940 edition), Puruga (literally, 'penis people' from their having accepted circumcision).
O'Grady et al (1966)
Majuli, Miorli
Glottocode
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Other sources
Miorli [Dutton, H.S. 1901] Mially [Dutton, J.S. 1906] Myallee (Lamb 1899), Myalli (Lamb 1904), Maiali, Majawali, Mailly, Myall, Myallee, Myoli, Miorli, Majuli, Maiawali [Blake 1979:184] Miorli (Roth), Myallee, Myalli (Both E. Lamb), Mi-or-li (C.W. Mackie), Mially (J.S. Dutton), Majuli (Tindale), Mayuli (O'Grady), Maiyuli (Elkin), Maiawali, Majawali [Blake and Breen 1971:170]
Synonyms
Mayawarli, Majuli, Malintji, Mullinchi, Myorli, Mi, li, Mially, Miouli, Myallee, Myalli, Myoli, Mayawali, Mayuli, Miorli, Maiali, Majawali, Mailly, Myall, Puruga
Comment
Comments: 

Blake says that Pitta-Pitta G6, Ringu-Ringu G7, Mayawarli (L40), Kunkalanya G3, Ngulupulu G40, Karanya L32 and Rakaya G4 are dialects of a language for which there is no obvious name (1979: 183).

 

References: 
  • Blake, Barry. 1979. Pitta-Pitta. In Dixon, R M W & Blake, Barry (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages vol. 1. 182-242. Canberra/ANU Press.
  • Blake, Barry & Gavan Breen. 1971. The Pitta-Pitta dialects: Linguistic Communications 4. Melbourne: Monash University.
  • 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: 
QLD
Location information: 

At Springvale, the Lakes (presumably the present Diamantina Lakes), Cork and middle Diamantina River (Roth 1897 as quoted in Blake and Breen 1971:12).

On the Diamantina River from Davenport Downs and Diamantina lakes north to Old Cork; on Mayne River to Mount Vergemont; west to Springvale; southeast to Farrars Creek; at Connemara and Brighton Downs (Tindale 1974).

 

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Tindale 1974
Programs
Activities: 
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People: 
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Indigenous organisations: 
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Speakers
Year Source Speaker numbers
1975Oates-
1984Senate-
1990Schmidt-
1996Census-
2001Census-
2004NILS10
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).

Documentation
Type Documentation Status Documentation Score
Word list Less than 20 pages 1
Text Collection None 0
Grammar None 0
Audio-visual Less than 1 1
Manuscript note: 
not available
Grammar: 
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Dictionary: 
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Classification
Source Family Group Sub-group Name Relationship
Ethnologue (2005)          
Dixon (2002)   LAKE EYRE BASIN AREAL GROUP North and west Lake Eyre Basin group Blake and Breen (1971) Mayawarli Pitta-Pitta (Pitha-Pitha)* Blake (1979b) further dialects: Ringu-Ringu, Rakaya, Ngulupulu, Karanja, Kunkalanja, Mayawarli
Wurm (1994) Pama-Nyungan Karnic   Mayawarli  
Walsh (1981) Pama-Nyungan Karnic Palku Mayawarli  
Oates (1975) Pama-Nyungan Karnic Palku Mayawarli  
Wurm (1972) Pama-Nyungan Pittapittic   Mayuli  
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966) Pama-Nyungan Pittapittic   Mayuli