Y216: Ngaygungu

AIATSIS code: 
Y216
AIATSIS reference name: 
Ngaygungu

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Ngaygungu language Y216
Thesaurus heading people
ABN name
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ABS name
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Horton name
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Ethnologue name
Warungu [Ngaygungu]
ISO 639-3 code
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Tindale name
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Tindale (1974)
O'Grady et al (1966)
Glottocode
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Other sources
Synonyms
Warungu
Comment
Comments: 
According to Dixon (1982), Ngaygungu is known only from 187 words recorded by Roth in 1900 and seven by Tindale 1938 and it has about 40-50 percent vocabulary in common with Dyirbal Y123. More recently Dixon (2007 p.c.) says it shares 45 percent vocabulary with Warungu Y133, and from examination of forms of verbs in Roth's list, Ngaygungu appears grammatically more similar to Warungu than to Dyirbal. Documentation on Dyirbal Y123 may be relevant.
References: 
  • Dixon, R. M. W. 1991. Mbabaram. In Handbook of Australian languages vol. 4, eds R. M. W. Dixon and B. J. Blake, 348-402. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Dixon, R. M. W. 1982. Problems in Dyirbal dialectology. In Language form and linguistic variation: papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh, ed. John M. Anderson, 43-73. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Status: 
Confirmed
Location
State / Territory: 
QLD
Location information: 
Dixon (1991) locates Ngaygungu east of Mbabaram while Dixon (1982) locates it southwest of Mbabaram. In this database, the location from the former source was used for mapping.
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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
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Classification
SourceFamilyGroupSub-groupNameRelationship
Ethnologue (2005)Pama-NyunganMaricWarungu [Ngaygungu]Warungu [dialects: Related to Ngaygungu and Yirandhali.]
Dixon (2002)GREATER MARIC GROUPMaric proper subgroupNgaygunguNgaygungu
Wurm (1994)Pama-NyunganPamanNgaygungu
Walsh (1981)Pama-NyunganPamanSouthern PamaNgaygungu
Oates (1975)
Wurm (1972)
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)