Y66: Wurangung

AIATSIS code: 
Y66
AIATSIS reference name: 
Wurangung

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Wurangung language Y66
Thesaurus heading people
Wurangung people Y66
ABN name
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ABS name
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Horton name
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Ethnologue name
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ISO 639-3 code
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Tindale name
Jeteneru (Wurangung)
Tindale (1974)
Yadaneru, Wurangung, ? Ompindamo (listed in McConnel, 1939-1940:56 without identified source).
O'Grady et al (1966)
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Glottocode
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Other sources
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Synonyms
Cocobathan, Jeteneru, Yadaneru, Ompindamo
Comment
Comments: 
Capell lists Wurangung, alternate name Yadaneru, Jeteneru (1963:Y136). Tindale lists Wurangung as an alternate name for Jeteneru (1974:170). Laycock says that Capell (1963: Y136) has 'probably subsumed' Parimankutima Y195 under Wurungang (Y66). This possibly follows West, who described Wurangung and Parimankutinma as dialects of the same language. According to Bruce Rigsby the language West recorded c1960 is Kuku Thaypan Y84 (pers. comm. in Godman 1993:7) and is not included for analysis by Godman in her 1993 study of Rumanggudinhma Y195. In his language map, Laycock places Parimankutinma and Wurungang under a 'Wurangung subgroup' (Laycock, 1969:71, 95, 97). It is interesting to note Laycock's Parimankutinma informants are also described as speakers of '... this language Parimankutinma or Wurangung' (1969:75). One of these people is Frank Curr, who was the speaker of 'Wurangung' recorded by West.
References: 
  • Capell, Arthur. 1963. Linguistic survey of Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  • Godman, Irene. 1993. A sketch grammar of Rimanggudinhma: a language of the Princess Charlotte Bay region of Cape York Peninsula, University of Queensland: BA (Hons). (MS 3585).
  • Laycock, Donald C. 1969. Three Lamalamic languages of north Queensland. In Papers in Australian Linguistics 4, 71-97. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Rigsby, Bruce. 1972. Aboriginal language: field books 1-8. (MS 755).
  • Rigsby, Bruce. 1999. Genealogies, kinship and local group organisation: Tintjingga (Port Stewart) in the late 1920's. In J.D. Finlayson, B. Rigsby and H.J. Bek (eds), Connections in native title: genealogies, kinship and groups. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University.
  • Tindale, Norman B. 1974. Aboriginal tribes of Australia: their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits, and proper names. Berkeley: University of California Press/Canberra: Australian National University Press.
Status: 
Potential no data
Location
State / Territory: 
QLD
Location information: 
Saltwater Creek in the southwest corner of Princess Charlotte Bay; inland toward Musgrave (Tindale 1974) (This covers Guluy Y160 as well.)
Maps: 
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Tindale 1974
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People: 
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Speakers
Year Source Speaker numbers
1975Oates11
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
TypeDocumentation StatusDocumentation Score
Word listNone0
Text CollectionNone0
GrammarNone0
Audio-visualLess than 11
Manuscript note: 
tape transcription/field note available (Kuku Thaypan and other language vocabulary)
Grammar: 
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Dictionary: 
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Classification
SourceFamilyGroupSub-groupNameRelationship
Ethnologue (2005)
Dixon (2002)
Wurm (1994)
Walsh (1981)
Oates (1975)Pama-NyunganLamalamicWurangung (or Waric Paman)Wurangung
Wurm (1972)Pama-NyunganLamalamicWurangungWurangung
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966)