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Author Dixon, Robert M. W

Title Words of our country : stories, place names, and vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal language of the Cairns-Yarrabah region / compiled and edited by R.M.W. Dixon ; with flora identification and interpretation by Tony Irvine
Published St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services, 1991

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 W'BOOL  499.15 Dix/Woo  AVAILABLE
Description x, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm
Series UQP paperbacks
UQP paperbacks
Summary Twenty-four stories in Yidiny recorded between 1970 and 1975; information on placenames of Upper Mulgrave River /Toohey Creek; and Cape Grafton area, Queensland; vocabulary in semantic domains, Yidiny-English vocabulary and English finder list; includes Gunggay and Wanyurr dialects and examples of Jalnguy avoidance language
Notes Alphabetical list of Yidiny words: p.278-302
Bibliography: p.27
Bibliography Bibliography
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aborigines, Australian -- Cairns Region, Queensland -- History
Yidin language -- Dictionaries
Aboriginal Australians -- Cairns Region, Queensland -- History
Aborigines, Australian -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Cairns Region (Qld.) -- History
Yidiny language -- Dictionaries
Yidiny language -- Texts
Yidiny language.
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Language.
Language - Sociolinguistics - Secret and special languages.
Language - Semantics.
Stories and motifs.
Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language.
Language - Vocabulary - Dictionaries and glossaries.
Language - Vocabulary - Place names.
Aboriginal Australians.
Yidiny language.
Gungay language (Y114) (Qld SE55-06)
Gunggandji / Gungandji people (Y114) (Qld SE55-06)
Madyanydyi / Wanyurr people (Y119) (Qld SE55-06)
Madyay / Wanyurr language (Y119) (Qld SE55-06)
Yidiny / Yidindji language (Y117) (Qld SE55-06)
Yidiny / Yidindji people (Y117) (Qld SE55-06)
Yidinj language Y117.
Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
Mulgrave River (NE Qld SE55-06)
Yarrabah / Cape Grafton (NE Qld SE55-02)
Queensland -- Cairns Region.
Yidin-Sprache.
Genre/Form History.
Texts.
Author Dixon, Robert M. W
Irvine, Tony.
LC no. 91163757
ISBN 0702223603