Yalarnnga

The Yalarnnga, also known as the Jalanga,[1][2] were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Language

Yalarnnga is an extinct language, hypothesized to be one of the two Galgadungic languages.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated their territorial range at 4,200 square miles (11,000 km2), in the area of Wills Creek, going south of Duchess to Fort William. They lived along the Burke and Mort Rivers and to the north of Chatsworth, and in the localities around Noranside and Buckingham Downs.[1]

History of contact

The lands of the Yalarnnga were first occupied by white settlers in 1877, at which time their numbers were estimated to be around 200 people.[3]

Alternative names
  • Yellunga.
  • Yelina.[3]
  • Wonganja. (putartively an extinct Yalarnnga horde)[1]

Some words
  • monero. (tame dog)
  • karlo. (father)
  • mernoo. (mother)
  • woothane. (whiteman)[4]

Notes

    Citations
      1. Tindale 1974, p. 169.
      2. Breen & Blake 2007, p. 2.
      3. Eglinton 1886, p. 346.
      4. Eglinton 1886, p. 348.

      Sources
      • Breen, Gavan; Blake, Barry J. (2007). The grammar of Yalarnnga: a language of western Queensland. Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0- 858-83567-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
      • Eglinton, E. (1886). "The Burke River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 346–349.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
      • Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
      • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Jalanga (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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