Turrbal language

Turrbal, also spelt Turubul and Turrubal, and also known as Yagara (Jagara/Jagera), is an Aboriginal Australian language of Queensland.

Turrbal
Yagara
RegionQueensland
EthnicityTurrbal, Jagera
ExtinctNo
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3yxg
Glottologyaga1256  Yagara-Jandai
AIATSIS[1]E86 Turubul, E23 Jagara
ELPYagara[2]

Other spellings of Turrbal are Turrabul, Toorbal, Tarabul; variants of Yagara are Ugarapul, Yuggarabul, Yuggera, Yuggarapul, Yackarabul.

The four dialects listed in Dixon (2002)[3] are sometimes seen as separate Durubalic languages, especially Jandai and Nunukul; Yagara and Turrbul proper are more likely to be considered dialects.[1]

Influence on other languages

The Australian English word 'yakka', an informal term referring to any work, especially of strenuous kind, comes from the Yagara word 'yaga', the verb for 'work'.[4]

The literary journal Meanjin takes its name from meanjin, a Turrbal word meaning "spike", referring to the spike of land Brisbane was later built on.[5]

References
  1. E86 Turubul at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Yagara.
  3. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv.
  4. Oxford Dictionary of English, p 2,054.
  5. "Meanjin debacle: erasing Aboriginal words in order to highlight white women's appropriation". NITV.


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