A25: Birniridjara

AIATSIS code: 
A25
AIATSIS reference name: 
Birniridjara

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Name
Thesaurus heading language
Thesaurus heading people
ABN name
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ABS name
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Horton name
Nana (Pini)
Ethnologue name
Pini
ISO 639-3 code
pii
Tindale name
Pini
Tindale (1974)
Piniiri (valid variant), Piniridjara, Biniridjara, Pandjanu, Bandjanu (locality term, now Bandya Station), Banjanu, Tjubun, Madutjara (term applied by the Nan-gatadjara), Jabura ('northerners,' name used by Tjalkadjara), Birni (a supposed name of their language probably a corruption of Piniiri), ? Buranudjara, Nangaritjara (name of their speech as used by Tjalkadjara), Wordako (said by a Ngadadjara man to be a language name of the Lake Darlot people; also used for Tjalkadjara).
O'Grady et al (1966)
Pirniritjara
Glottocode
pini1245
Other sources
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Synonyms
Pinyirritjarra, Pini, Nana, Badu, Bandjanu, Banjanu, Barduwonga, Bawndudjara, Bini, Biniridjara, Birni, Budidjara, Bududjara, Buranudjara, Buurdidyara, Jabura, Kaltalbudara, Kaltalbudjara, Kaltalbudjira, Madutjara, Nangaritjara, Ngondidjara, Pandjanu, Pardu, Partutu, Partutudjara, Piniiri, Piniridjara, Pirniritjara, Poroko, Potidjara, Potitjara, Puditjarra, Purditara, Putitjara, Tjubun, Tutudjara, Wordako
Comment
Comments: 

The form 'Biniridjara' is from Bernt (in Capell, 1963: 14). Lindegren, (in Capell (1963: 13) wrote ‘Three dialect groups of the Western Desert language are represented at Jigalong. These are known amongst the aborigines [sic] themselves at [sic] Katatjara, Mantjiltjara and Putitjara, but elsewhere in the great Western Desert region are known by “nicknames” depending upon idiosyncracies in the language, thus the Jigalong people are spoken of by the Warburton Range aborigines [sic] as piniritjara, piniri being the local word for “run” and differing from the Warburton kukura (Douglas, 1958)'. See also Kartujarra A51, Manyjilyjarra A51.1 and Western Desert Language A80.

Douglas later wrote 'To the people of the Kalgoorlie area, the Jigalong people are the wangka maTutjara 'those having maTu ('man')' and piniritjara because the word piniri ('run'), a word which is not used in the south' (1964: 3). The capital T represents a retroflex stop.

According to Oates (1975:108 - 109), Capell said that this is another name for Djalgatjara/Barduwanga A26, while Marsh says it seems to be another name for Kiyatjara A52.

 

References: 
  • Capell, Arthur. 1963. Linguistic Survey of Australia. Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  • Douglas. Wilfred. 1964. An Introduction to Western Desert Language. Oceanic Linguistic Monographs No 4 (revised) (eds Elkin, P., A Capell, and S Wurm). Sydney: University of Sydney.
  • Oates, Lynette F. 1975. The 1973 supplement to a revised linguistic survey of Australia. Armidale: Armidale Christian Book Centre.
  • 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: 
Unconfirmed
Location
State / Territory: 
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Location information: 

West of Lakes Carnegie and Wells to Millrose and Barwidgee; at Erlistoun Creek and Lake Darlot. North to Wongawol and Princes Range (Tindale 1974).

Maps: 
  • Tindale, Norman. 1974. Tribal boundaries in Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Division of National Mapping, Department of National Development.
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Programs
Activities: 
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People: 
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Indigenous organisations: 
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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
Type Documentation Status Documentation Score
Word list None 0
Text Collection None 0
Grammar None 0
Audio-visual None 0
Manuscript note: 
not available
Grammar: 
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Dictionary: 
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Classification
Source Family Group Sub-group Name Relationship
Ethnologue (2005) Pama-Nyungan South-West Wati Pini  
Dixon (2002)          
Wurm (1994)          
Walsh (1981)          
Oates (1975) Pama-Nyungan Western Desert Proper Wati Birniridjara  
Wurm (1972) Pama-Nyungan Southwest (or Nyungic) Western Desert Language Pini  
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966) Pama-Nyungan Southwest Wati Pini