Y210: Kirka

AIATSIS code: 
Y210
AIATSIS reference name: 
Kirka

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Kirka language Y210
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Comment
Comments: 
This name is mentioned in Hall's study on Kuuk Thaayorre Y69 (1968).
References: 
  • Hall, Allen. 1968. A depth-study of the Thaayorr language of the Edward River tribe, Cape York Peninsula: being a description of the phonology with a brief grammatical outline and samples of lexicon and oral literature, University of Queensland: MA. (MS 544).
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Potential data
Location
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QLD
Location information: 
South side of Chapman R. as /Palipan/ (1968).
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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)WESTERN CAPE YORK PENINSULA AREAL GROUPUpper southwest Pama groupKirkaKuuk Thaayorre Hall (1972) further dialects: Yak, Kirka, Thayem, Thayunth
Wurm (1994)
Walsh (1981)
Oates (1975)Pama-NyunganWestern PamaKirka
Wurm (1972)
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)