The Yalarnnga, also known as the Jalanga, are an
Indigenous Australian
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people of the state of
Queensland
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
.
Language
Yalarnnga is an
extinct
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Australian Aboriginal language
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
, hypothesized to be one of the two
Galgadungic languages of the
Pama–Nyungan language family. The last native speaker died in 1980.
Country
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
Life
Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived ther ...
estimated their territorial range at , in the area o
Wills Creek going south of
Duchess
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t
Fort William They lived along the
Burke
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and Mort Rivers and to the north of Chatsworth, and in the localities aroun
Noransideand Buckingham Downs.
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.
Alternative names
* ''Yellunga''
* ''Yelina''
* ''Wonganja'' (putatively an extinct Yalarnnga
horde
Horde may refer to:
History
* Orda (organization), a historic sociopolitical and military structure in steppe nomad cultures such as the Turks and Mongols
** Golden Horde, a Turkic-Mongol state established in the 1240s
** Wings of the Golden Hord ...
)
Vocabulary
Some words from the Yalarnnga language, as spelt and written by Yalarnnga authors include:
[State Library of Queensland, "Yalarnnga"]
* ': good day
* ''Karlu / karlo'': father
* ''Mernoo'': mother
* ''Woothane'': white man
* ''Kathirr'': grass
* ''Karni'': shoulder
* ''Katyimpa'': two
* ''Kunyu'': water
* ''Karrkuru'': yellowbelly (fish)
* ''Monero'': tame dog
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland