L47: Matja

AIATSIS code: 
L47
AIATSIS reference name: 
Matja

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Thesaurus heading language
Matja language L47
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Comment
Comments: 
Breen (2004:2) says this is a variety of Yawarrawarrka L23. Documentation on Yawarrawarrka L23 may be relevant.
References: 
  • Breen, Gavan. 2004. Innamincka Talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects: Pacific Linguistics 558. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Status: 
Confirmed
Location
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SA
Location information: 
... west of Innamincka, on the Cooper between his country and Diyari. Breen's informant implied once that Cuttapirie was the upstream boundary. The Diyari boundary was said to be at or before Kanowana (Breen 2004:2).
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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)
Dixon (2002)
Wurm (1994)
Walsh (1981)
Oates (1975)
Wurm (1972)
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)