S96: Hawkesbury River - Broken Bay language

AIATSIS code: 
S96
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Hawkesbury River - Broken Bay language

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Hawkesbury River-Broken Bay language S96
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Comments: 

This language was not identified as a distinct variety until recent publications by Nash and Wilkins (2008, based on a 1991 draft by Wilkins) and Wafer and Lissarrague (2008).

On the basis of limited available data (Tuckerman 1887), Wafer and Lissarrague (2008:144) conclude that the Hawkesbury River - Broken Bay language is more likely a dialect of the same language as Darrkinyung S65, which they call the 'Hawkesbury - MacDonald River language', rather than a distinct language.

Note that Tuckerman's data was misidentified as Kameraigal S62 by Oates and Oates (1970:281) and Oates (1975:409).

 

References: 
  • Oates, Lynette F. 1975. The 1973 supplement to a revised linguistic survey of Australia. Armidale: Armidale Christian Book Centre.
  • Oates, William J., and Lynette F. Oates. 1970. A revised linguistic survey of Australia: Australian Aboriginal Studies 33, Linguistic Series 12. Canberra: AIAS.
  • Tuckerman, J. 1887. The Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay. In The Australian race vol. 3, ed. E. M. Curr, 358-359. Melbourne: John Farnes, Government Printer.
  • Wafer, Jim & Amanda Lissarrague. 2008. A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Nambucca Heads: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative.
  • Wilkins, David & David Nash. 2008. The European 'discovery' of a multilingual Australia: the linguistic and ethnographic successes of a failed expedition. In W. McGregor (ed.) Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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NSW
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... extending inland along the northern shore of Broken Bay (Wafer & Lissarrague 2008:165).

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Speakers
Year Source Speaker numbers
1975Oates-
1984Senate-
1990Schmidt-
1996Census-
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2004NILS1-
2005Estimate-
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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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Ethnologue (2005)          
Dixon (2002)          
Wurm (1994)          
Walsh (1981)          
Oates (1975)          
Wurm (1972)          
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)