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Fall 08 NNGGAARRLLUUMMAA NGARLUMA DICTIONARY ENGLISH-NGARLUMA WORDLIST AND TOPICAL WORDLISTS 2008 Edition NGARLUMA DICTIONARY ENGLISH-NGARLUMA WORDLIST AND TOPICAL WORDLISTS 2008 Important Note on Taboo Words This production will contain words that are not spoken by present language speakers, as the word is taboo. This taboo is due to the word being the name of, or sounding like the name of, someone who has passed away. All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. No copy or transmissions may be made without written permission from Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre. First published in 2008 by Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; a non-government organisation working towards the recording and preservation of Pilbara and Goldfields Indigenous languages. Wangka Maya received financial assistance from the Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts for the printing of this book. Dictionary cover designed by Sally Dixon Cover photograph by Tyson Mowarin © Linguistic content copyright remains with the Ngarluma people. © Book production Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre Designed by Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre Printed by Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre ISBN: 1 921312 73 4 Bibliography Indigenous Languages 2. Languages 3. Pilbara 4. Australian Aboriginal People Table of Contents_Toc321298160 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................. i Introduction ......................................................................................................... ii The Ngarluma Language and its Speakers .......................................................................... ii Classification of Ngarluma ........................................................................................ ii Ngarluma Country .................................................................................................... iii The Present Situation ............................................................................................... iii The Ngarluma Social System .................................................................................. iv The Spelling System.............................................................................................................. v Word Classes ....................................................................................................................... vi Ngarluma Verbs ................................................................................................................... vii Ngarluma Pronouns ........................................................................................................... viii Ngarluma – English Dictionary .......................................................................... 1 English – Ngarluma Wordlist ........................................................................... 49 Topical Wordlists .............................................................................................. 83 Animals, Body Parts and Products..................................................................................... 85 Aquatic ................................................................................................................................. 85 Artifacts, Constructions and Personal Objects ................................................................. 86 Birds ..................................................................................................................................... 89 Bodily Functions ................................................................................................................. 90 Ceremony and Dreaming .................................................................................................... 91 Colour, Pattern and Texture ................................................................................................ 92 Direction and Location ........................................................................................................ 93 Elements .............................................................................................................................. 94 Food, Drink, Cooking and Fire ............................................................................................ 96 Healing, Sickness and Ailments ......................................................................................... 98 Holding and Transfer........................................................................................................... 98 Human Body Parts and Products ....................................................................................... 99 Impact and Violence ............................................................................................................ 99 Insects ............................................................................................................................... 102 Interjections ....................................................................................................................... 102 Interrogatives .................................................................................................................... 103 Language about Language ............................................................................................... 103 Manner and Posture .......................................................................................................... 103 Mood and Character .......................................................................................................... 104 Motion ................................................................................................................................ 105 Names and Placenames .................................................................................................... 107 Number and Quantity ........................................................................................................ 108 Particles and Clitics .......................................................................................................... 108 People and Kinship ........................................................................................................... 109 Physical State .................................................................................................................... 111 Plants ................................................................................................................................. 112 Pronouns and Demonstratives ......................................................................................... 114 Reptiles and Snakes .......................................................................................................... 115 Size, Shape and Weight .................................................................................................... 116 Sounds ............................................................................................................................... 116 Stative Verbs ..................................................................................................................... 117 Suffixes .............................................................................................................................. 118 Time ................................................................................................................................... 119 Value .................................................................................................................................. 120 Vocalising and Thought .................................................................................................... 120 Acknowledgements The first Ngarluma Dictionary printed by Wangka Maya PALC was based on Ken Hale’s dictionary of Ngarluma, which was produced as a result of intensive work with Bob Churnside. Since that time there has been considerable work undertaken to expand the lexical database of Ngarluma. In 2001, an edition was released which included more entries and example sentences. It also featured a refined finderlist and included a semantic field classification. Nick Thieberger combined the electronic files and edited the 2001 version for Wangka Maya. Further additions and editing were completed in 2004 by Wangka Maya linguists Vicki Webb and Albert Burgman. Errors in the 2001 edition that had been identified by speakers were cleared up, and an introduction was included. Much of the material for the introduction was taken from another Wangka Maya PALC publication Bilybara: Aboriginal Languages of the Pilbara by Janet Sharp and Nick Thieberger. Many extra entries for plants were also added from the publication Wanggalili: Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma Plants, published by Juluwarlu Corporation, Roebourne. This edition represents an intensive period of work on Ngarluma over the 2007-2008 period. Over 700 new entries have been added, as well as several hundred new senses. Over these two years Wangka Maya linguist Sally Dixon worked with the Ngarluma Language Team within the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation. The team included Maxie Sambo,