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Green Ledger: Phonetics, Word Lists, and Texts of Njaŋumada, Jülbaridja, Wanman, Jindjibandi, Maŋala, Njamal, and Ŋaluma

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

Collection Creator
O'Grady, G. N. (Geoffrey N.)
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Geoffrey N. O'Grady Papers
Geoffrey N. O'Grady Papers / Series 1: Field Research
Sponsor
The digitization of portions of this collection was supported by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund.
Date
1949-1955
Container
Oversize 3
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Geoffrey N. O'Grady Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection Rights
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Scope and Contents
The ledger contains summaries from fieldnotes on nine languages of Western Australia, and a "Malj" wordlist, given to an informant by "spirits." The languages concerned are: Njaŋumada (retroflex /d/), Yulbaridja (alt. Jülbaridja), Wanman, Garayara (alt. Garajara, Garijera), Yindjibaņdi (alt. Jindjibandi), Maŋala, Njamal, Malj (the "spirit" language), Ŋaluma and Ŋala. Also, very small amounts of material on Luritja and Gugadja and Walmajarri (written Walmacarri). Languages are keyed as follows: Njaŋumada -- NJAŊ Yulbaridja -- YU Wanman -- WA Garayara -- GA Yindjibaņdi -- YI Maŋala -- MA Njamal -- NJAM Ŋaluma -- ŊALU Ŋala -- ŊALA Luritja -- LU Gugadja -- GU Walmajarri -- WAL Index pages 5-191 -- NJAŊ. All very much a work in progress, but packed with information. The word list at the beginning was later checked in 1967 with informants JB and Bronco at La Grange. Annotations from this period are in red and include ammendments to the initial transcription, comments on words that were not recognised in 1967, or had different meanings. The red annotations finish on p. 66. There also seem to be several other stages of annotation, not datable but probably pre 1967. From p. 307 onwards the data is from 1967. 84-88 -- Place names with annotations in English. 89 -- List of names of individuals and the kin terms O'G used to refer to them. 90 -- Relationship terms. 91ff -- Phrases and sentences illustrating grammatical topics, bits of commentary on songs. 100 -- "items needing further study" 197-218 -- YU materials consisting of a "phrase book" and grammatical notes. 221-222 -- Notes on WA. 229-230 -- Capell's wordlist (partial) for NJAŊ, YU, WA, and MA. 231-234 -- GA wordlist (and the odd sentence). 235-239 -- YI word lists. 240 -- MA vocabulary (my notes say: tinged with NJAŊ? I presume this was O'G's comment not mine). 241 -- YI sentences (from Capell's list). 242 -- Notes on the "spirit" language called Malj (very interesting). 243-246 -- NJAM wordlists (with later annotations). 247-259 -- NJAŊ texts. 261-264 -- ŊALU word lists and texts. 265-267 -- ŊAĻA word lists and grammatical notes. 269-276 -- Comparative word lists for ŊALU, YI, GA, NJAM, ŊALA, WA, NJAŊ, YU, LU, GU (Lower River, near Oodnadata). 277-280 -- WA translations of sentences (Capell's list). 286 -- ŊALU vocabulary (Clements 1903). 291-300 -- Capell's phrase book in NJAŊ. 301 -- Test list of 104 words in various languages (incomplete). 307-324 -- Person markers collected at La Grange, September 1967 in the following languages: NJAŊ, YU, WAL, WA, NJAM, MA. Incomplete—NJAŊ most complete. Now using /y/ rather than IPA /j/. 325 -- 'Walmacarri grammar September 25, 1967 (WAL pronouns). 326-336 -- Comparative phrases, with annotations on left-hand pages for NJAŊ, YU, GA, WAL . 361-364 -- Notes on kin terms (La Grange), languages not specified. End pages -- Contain a mud map showing the locations of languages.
Collection Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
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Record ID
ebl-1503512911319-1503512911339-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f367f975-73c4-46bd-8226-7a16c9ddaf54

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