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Noongar Waangkiny – A Learner’s Guide to Noongar

Click here for the Noongar Waangkiny - A Learner's Guide to Noongar

 

The original Learner’s Guide to Noongar was written and compiled by Lois Spehn-Jackson as part of her ongoing contribution to the Noongar Language Project as a Language Consultant.

 

This edition of Noongar Waangkiny – A Learner’s Guide to Noongar, has been compiled by Maree Klesch and edited by Charmaine Bennell.

 

The recent work of the Noongar Language Project has aimed to include examples in the three Noongar dialects where possible. This upgrading of resources to include dialects will also provided the opportunity for Noongar Waangkiny – Talking Noongar to be upgraded to include more dialect examples in the not too distant future.

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Noongar Dictionary by Rose Whitehurst

Click here for an online copy of the Noongar Dictionary by Rose Whitehurst
 

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WORDLISTS (from 1801 - 2015)

 

Click here for the Flinder's Noongar (Nyungar) Word List (1801)

Click here for the P.P. King's Noongar Word List (1821)

Click here for the Vocabulary collected by Isaac Scott Nind 1826-1829 at King George's Sound

Click here for Symmons 1842 Nyungar Grammar

Click here for Daisy Bates on South West Dialects

Click here for George Flethcer Moores Wordlist

Click here for the Noongar Names for Plants (1983)

Click here for the Nyungar Website

 

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OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN LIBRARIES NATIONWIDE

 

Atkins, W. H. (William Henry) & Douglas, Wilfrid H. (Wilfrid Henry) (1991). W.H. Atkins memorial : Nyungar-English, English-Nyungar dictionary, with equivalents in standard orthography ("Limited edition"). W.H. Douglas, [s.l.]

 

Bates, D.  (1989). Goonininup: A Site Complex on the Southern Side of Mount Eliza: An Historical Perspective of Land Use and Associations in the Old Swan Brewery Area

 

Bates, D. (1992). Aboriginal Perth: Bibbulmun Biographies and Legends. P.J. Bridge (ed.), Hesperian Press, Carlisle, 1992

 

Bindon, P & Bindon, Peter & Chadwick, Ross & Western Australian Museum. Anthropology Department & Bindon, Peter (ed) et al. (1992). A Nyoongar wordlist from the south west of Western Australia ([New ed.]). Anthropology Dept., Western Australian Museum, Perth, W.A

 

Brandenstein, C. G. von (Carl Georg von) & Linguistic Circle of Canberra & Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Department of Linguistics (1988). Nyungar Anew : phonology, text samples and etymological and historical 1500-word vocabulary of an artificially recreated Aboriginal language in the south-west of Australia. Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra

 

(2011). Caralee Community School Noongar dictionary. Batchelor Press, Batchelor, N.T

 

Catholic Education Office, Leede(n.d) Yelakitj Koondarm Nyungar Language Project Includes Nyungar word book, posters, stickers.

 

Collard, Glenys, 1958- & Wooltorton, Sandra & Noongar Language and Culture Centre (1995). Noongar - our way. Part 1, Noongar tradition (2nd ed). Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Aboriginal Corp.), Bunbury, W.A

 

Collard, L. et al (2005). "Nidja Beeliar Boodjar Noonookurt Nyininy. A Nyungar interpretive history of the use of boodjar (country) in the vicinity of Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia" Available online: http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/multimedia/nyungar/menu9.htm

 

(1968). Despatch from Hutt to Marquis of Normanby, 11 February 1840 with enclosure, British Parliamentary Papers, Papers relating to Aborigines, Australian Colonies,  Colonies, Australia, Volume 8. Shannon University Press     

 

Dench, A. (1994) .Nyungar. In N. Thieberger & W.McGregorleds, Macquarie Aboriginal Words p.p 173-192.

 

Dewar, Jill & Yelakitj Yorgas Nyungar Group (compiler.) & Catholic Education Office (Perth, W.A.) (contributor.) Yelakitj Koondarm Nyungar language project. [Leederville, W.A.] [Catholic Education Office of Western Australia]

 

Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School (n.d.) Koolangka Warangka : Noongar Language CD & Song Book. Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School, Bunbury.

 

Douglas, Wilfrid H. (Wilfrid Henry) & Edith Cowan University (1996). Illustrated dictionary of the South-west Aboriginal language. Edith Cowan University, Claremont, W.A

 

George Fletcher Moore (1884). Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in western Australia and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines. London M. Walbrook

 

George Fletcher Moore (1842). A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the aborigines of western Australia embodying much interesting information regarding the ... natives and the natural history of the country. London W. S. Orr & co

 

Grey, G. (1840). A Vocabulary of the Dialects of South West Australia. L. and W. Boone, London          

                                   

Grey, G. (1841) Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, During the years 1837, 38 and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants. T. and W. Boone, London

 

Hallam, Sylvia J & Tilbrook, Lois, 1943- & University of Western Australia Press (1990). Aborigines of the southwest region, 1829-1840. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, W.A

 

Hallam, Sylvia J & Tilbrook, Lois Joan, 1943-2006 (1990). The Bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians. Volume 8. Aborigines of the southwest region, 1829-1840. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, W.A

 

Larsen, David & Larsen, Brenda (2007). Noongar talk the English to Noongar talking dictionary (Version 1.0). Compu.Ed, [Nedlands, W.A

 

Lyon, R. (1833). ‘A Glance at the Manners, and Language of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Western Australia; With a Short Vocabulary’. Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal.           

 

Moore, G.F. (1830). A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use. Available online:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1e8UAAAAYAAJ&dq=George%20Fletcher%20Moore&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

Moore, G.F. (1884). Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia; and also, A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the Aborigines, London: M Wallbrook,

 

Noongar Boodjar Waangkiny Language Center (2015). Noongar Dialects. Available online: http://www.noongarculture.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Noongar-Dictionary-Second-Edition.pdf

 

Noongar Boodjar Waangkiny Language Center (2015). Spelling and Pronunciation. Available online: http://noongarboodjar.com.au/language/spelling-and-pronunciation/

 

Noongar Language and Culture Center (2015). Noongar to English and English to Noongar. Available online: http://www.noongarculture.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Noongar-Dictionary-Second-Edition.pdf

 

Noongar Boodjar Waangkiny Language Center (2015). Noongar Waangkiny. Available online: http://noongarboodjar.com.au/wpcontent/uploads/2014/12/NoongarLearnersGuide_web.pdf

 

Purdie, Nola & Australian Council for Educational Research (2008). Indigenous languages programmes in Australian schools a way forward. Dept. of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, [Canberra]

 

Rooney, Bernard & Benedictine Community of New Norcia & Noongar Language Project (2011). Nyoongar dictionary. Batchelor Press, [Batchelor, N.T.]

 

Salvado, D.R. (1851). Memorie Storiche dell’Australia. 1851 (edited and translated in 1977 by E.J. Storman).

 

Spehn-Jackson, L. (2011), Noongar Waangkiny – A Learner’s Guide to Noongar, Publisher unknown.

 

Thieberger, Nicholas & McGregor, William (1994). Macquarie Aboriginal words : a dictionary of words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Macquarie Library, Macquarie University, North Ryde, N.S.W

 

Whitehurst, Rose & Noongar Language and Culture Centre (1990). Noongar dictionary : Noongar to English and English to Noongar (1st ed). Noongar Language and Culture Centre, Carey Park, W.A

 

Winmar, Ralph (1996). Walwalinj : the hill that cries. Dorothy Winmar, Mann

 

 

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