N188: Garig

AIATSIS code: 
N188
AIATSIS reference name: 
Garig

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Garig language N188
Thesaurus heading people
ABN name
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ABS name
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Horton name
Iwaidja (Gaari)
Ethnologue name
Garig
ISO 639-3 code
ilg
Tindale name
Gaari
Tindale (1974)
Gari
O'Grady et al (1966)
Glottocode
gari1253
Other sources
Gurik [Harvey PMS 5822] Port Essington [Earl 1846, in Evans 2006:7]
Synonyms
Garik, Iwaidja, Gaari, Adawuli, Djalakuru, Garrig, Jaako, Jiwadza, Marlgu, Oitbi, Uruku, Wurango, Gurik, Gari, Iwaidjan
Comment
Comments: 

Singer et al. (2021:1) say that Garig (N188) is a non-Pama Nyungan language in the Iwaidjan language family, the others in this family are Iwaidja N39, Mawng N64, Amurdak N47, Marrku N45, Wurrugu N37 and Ilgar N184.

There is a discrepancy amongst the sources as to the location of Garig. Harvey places it in the middle of the peninsula but Berndt and Berndt (1951) place it in the west at Cape Don. Peterson and Tonkinson (1979) refer to movement, but they only say that Iwaidja had moved in to the Cape Don area, not where (or if) Garig had moved.

References: 
  • Berndt, Ronald M. & Catherine H. Berndt. 1951. Sexual behavior in Western Arnhem Land. New York: Viking Fund.
  • Confalonieri, Fr. Angelo. 1914/15. Map; Coburg Peninsula, Port Essington, the country, by the author from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (S.A.Br.) 1914/15, 16; 76, in Father Angelo Confalonieri's manuscript in Jiwadja in Propaganda Fide Archive, Rome / edited with introduction and notes by Guilio Soravia. Annali Ist. or. Napoli -- 1975; 35 (n.s. 25); 377-399. (p CON)
  • Evans, Nicholas. 1996. First-and last-notes on Wurrugu. University of Melbourne. Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 16, pp. 91-98. (S 40/29)
  • Harvey, Mark. 2008. Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages: land-language associations at colonisation. AILEC 0802.
  • Peterson, Nicolas & Myrna Tonkinson. 1979. Cobourg Peninsula and adjacent islands land claim. Prepared at the instruction of the Northern Land Council on behalf of the Claimants, December 1979. <http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/41570643>
  • Powell, Alan. 1982. Culture contact and changes in land occupation on the Cobourg Peninsula. North Australia Research Bulletin, nos. 6 - 8. (S 91/4).
  • SCHEBECK_B02 https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/schebeck_b02_finding_aid.pdf
Status: 
Confirmed
Location
State / Territory: 
NT
Location information: 

The drainages leading into Raffles Bay and the northern part of Bowen Strait, on both sides of the Strait (Harvey AILEC 0802). ... traditionally Cape Don (Peterson & Tonkinson 1979).

 

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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).

Documentation
Type Documentation Status Documentation Score
Word list None 0
Text Collection None 0
Grammar None 0
Audio-visual 1-10 2
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Dictionary: 
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Classification
Source Family Group Sub-group Name Relationship
Ethnologue (2005) Yiwaidjan Yiwaidjic   Garig Garig-Ilgar [dialects: Ilgar, Garig]
Dixon (2002)   NORTH-WEST ARNHEM LAND SUBGROUP* Mawung-Iwaydja subgroup* Garik Iwaydja Pym and Larrimore (1979) further dialects: Ilgar, Garik
Wurm (1994) Yiwaidjan Garig   Garig  
Walsh (1981) Yiwaidjan Garigic   Garig (possibly another name for Iwaidja)  
Oates (1975) Yiwaidjan Garigic   Garig  
Wurm (1972) Iwaidjan Iwaidjic Garikic? Garik?  
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)