N39: Iwaidja | AIATSIS Collection

AIATSIS code:

N39

AIATSIS reference name:

Iwaidja

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Name

Thesaurus heading language	Iwaidja language N39
Thesaurus heading people	Iwaidja people N39
ABN name	Iwaidja language
ABS name	Iwaidja
Horton name	Iwaidja
Ethnologue name	Iwaidja
ISO 639-3 code	ibd
Tindale name	Iwaidja
Tindale (1974)	(ii = no), Ji:wadja, Jiwadja, Juwadja, Iwaija, Iyi, Eiwaja, Eaewardja, Eaewarga (in MS presuming g = dj), Uwaidja, Eae-warge-ga, Unalla, Limbakaraja, Limba-Karadjee, Iwaiji (compare note under Wurango), Tarula (Melville Islanders term, lit. 'riflemen' because Joe Cooper, early white settler, used Iwaidja helpers to defend himself).
O'Grady et al (1966)	Jiwaidja, Iwaiji, Eiwaja, Eaewandja, Unalla, Limbakaraja
Glottocode	iwai1244
Other sources	Iwaja, Yiwayja [Harvey PMS 5822]
Synonyms	Iwaydja, Adawuli, Djalakuru, Gaari, Garrig, Jaako, Jiwadza, Marlgu, Oitbi, Uruku, Wurango, Eae warge ga, Eaewandja, Eaewardja, Eaewarga, Eawaitja, Eewardja, Eiwaja, Gari, Idjduwa, Ilkar, Iwaidji, Iwaija, Iwaiji, Iwaji, Iyi, Jewitcha, Ji:wadja, Jiwadja, Jiwaidja, Juwadja, Limba Kar adjee, Limba karadjee, Limbakaraja, Manduwid, Ngadalwuli, Oidbi, Tarula, Unalla, Uwaidja, Yiwadja, Yiwadya, Yiwayja, Yiwaidja, Iwaja, Limba Karadjee, Iwadja, Yiwaydja, Iwaidjan

Comment

Comments:

Iwaidja is a non-Pama Nyungan language with a close relationship to Mawng N64 ... [they] are the only languages in the Iwaidjan language family still spoken, the other languages in the Iwaidjan family are Amurdak N47, Marrku N45, Wurrugu N37, Ilgar N184 and Garig N188 (Singer et al. 2021 :3).

References:

Harvey, Mark. 2008. Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages: land-language associations at colonisation. AILEC 0802.
Powell, Alan. 1982. Culture contact and changes in land occupation on the Cobourg Peninsula. North Australia Research Bulletin, nos. 6 - 8. (S 91/4).
Pym, Noreen, with Bonnie Larrimore. 1979. Papers on Iwaidja phonology and grammar: Work papers of SIL-AAB series A vol. 2. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Singer, Ruth, Nita Garidjalalug, Rosemary Urabadi, Heather Hewett, Peggy Mirwuma, Philip Ambidjambidj, Anne Fabricus. 2021. Mawng to English Dictionary. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Status:

Confirmed

Location

State / Territory:

Location information:

The north coast from the De Courcy Head area to and including the southern half of Bowen Strait. The neck of Cobourg Peninsula east from about Wongarlu Bay. Murganellam. There was no precise information in 2007 on the southern limits of Iwaidja affiliations (Harvey ASEDA 802). The Iwaidja language is spoken on Croker Island and the Cobourg Peninsula in Western Arnhemland, Northern Territory. (Pym & Larrimore 1979).

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Iwaidja online dictionary

Programs

Activities:

Batchelor Press published a few materials in 2005.

People:

Heather Hewett, Noreen Pym, Nick Evans

Indigenous organisations:

Speakers

Year	Source	Speaker numbers
1975	Oates	exist
1984	Senate	-
1990	Schmidt	180
1996	Census	-
2001	Census	-
2004	NILS	-
2005	Estimate	-
2006	Census	134
2011	Census	135
2016	Census	123

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	Large grammar (more than 200 pages)	4
Audio-visual	1-10	2

Manuscript note:

tape transcription/field note available

Grammar:

Pym, Noreen. 1979. Papers on Iwaidja phonology and grammar: Work papers of SIL-AAB A2. Darwin: SIL

Dictionary:

Pym, Noreen. 1982. Iwaidja working dictionary. Dariwn: SIL. Pym, Noreen. Iwaidja word list, ASEDA 0012.

Classification

Source	Family	Group	Sub-group	Name	Relationship
Ethnologue (2005)	Yiwaidjan	Yiwaidjic		Iwaidja	Iwaidja [dialectes: Iwaydja]
Dixon (2002)		NORTH-WEST ARNHEM LAND SUBGROUP*	Mawung-Iwaydja subgroup*	Iwaydja	Iwaydja Pym and Larrimore (1979) further dialects: Ilgar, Garik
Wurm (1994)	Yiwaidjan	Yiwaidjic		Yiwaidja
Walsh (1981)	Yiwaidjan	Yiwaidjic	Wargbi	Yiwaidja
Oates (1975)	Yiwaidjan	Yiwaidjic		Yiwadja
Wurm (1972)	Iwaidjan	Iwaidjic	Wargbi	Iwaidji (Yiwaidja)
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)	Iwaidjan	Iwaidjic	Wargbi	Iwaidji