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1 online resource (330 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Phonetic Alphabet Used for Yidiny; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Stories; Text 1 -- The Carpet Snake and the Shells; Text 2 -- Damarri and Guyala; Text 3 -- The Origin of Lake Eacham; Text 4 -- The Arrival of the Yidinyji People; Text 5 -- The First Plane; Text 6 -- The Boomerang Son; Text 6a -- More about the Boomerang Son; Text 7 -- Traditional Life; Text 8 -- Gulnyjarubay's Travels; Text 9 -- Early Life in the Mission; Text 10 -- Initiation of Young Men; Text 11 -- The Legend of Bindam; Text 12 -- First Version of Bibiyuwuy Legend |
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Text 13 -- Gulnyjarubay's Travels in the Cape Grafton RegionText 14 -- Second Version of the Bibiyuwuy Legend; Text 15 -- Expiation for a Crime; Text 16 -- How the Sea Level Rose; Text 17 -- Stealing Potatoes; Text 18 -- A Woman Taken by an Alligator; Text 19 -- The Origin of Fire; Text 20 -- The Origin of Lake Eacham (second version); Text 21 -- Gulnyjarubay's Travels in the Cape Grafton Region (second telling); Text 22 -- The Water Sprite Bride; Text 23 -- Learning from the Old People; Text 24 -- A Story in Jalnguy, the 'Mother-in-law' Style; Place Names |
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Upper Mulgrave River/Toohey Creek Region (Map 2)Cape Grafton Peninsula and Surrounding Area (Map 3); Cairns and Places South; Places on the Tableland; Vocabulary, by Area of Meaning; Nouns; A -- Body parts; B -- Classification of people, and spirits; C -- Moieties and kinship; D -- Mammals; E -- Reptiles and amphibjans; F -- Birds; G -- Fishes and other water creatures; H -- Insects and related creatures; I -- Language, song, dance, noises; J -- Artefacts; K -- Food, fire, water; L -- Meteorological, celestial; M -- Geography, place and house; N -- Flora; O -- Abstract nouns; Locational qualifiers |
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P -- Locational qualifiersTime qualifiers; Q -- Time qualifiers; Adjectives; R -- Number and collectivity; Position and dimension; Physical property and colour; Value, age, speed; Human propensity; Other adjectives; Verbs; S -- Verbs of motion; T -- Verbs of rest and giving; U -- Verbs of affect; V -- Verbs of attention; W -- Verbs of speaking, etc; X -- Corporeal verbs; Y -- Other verbs, and adverbals; Particles and interjections; Z -- Particles and interjections; Alphabetical List of Yidiny Words; Alphabetical English Finder List; Copyright |
| Summary |
This book explores an Aboriginal lifestyle through its words. For many thousands of years the Yidiny language was spoken by the Aborigines of the Cairns-Atherton Tablelands region. Today the people and the words are all but extinct. Here, in tracking this sophisticated language, linguist R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon records its last speakers. The language and way of life are illustrated by twenty-four stories in both Yidiny and English translation. Aboriginal place names are listed along with their origins, and the book includes a clearly organised vocabulary of words, and Yidiny and English index |
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Print version record |
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Yidiny language.
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Yidiny language -- Texts
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Aboriginal Australians -- History
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
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Aboriginal Australians
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Yidiny language
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History
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Texts
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780702248214 |
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0702248215 |
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