Yandruwandha is located in the far north east of the state of South Australia, crossing into Queensland.
Yandruwandha lies east of the Diyari language, north of the Pirlatapa language, and south of the Yawarawarka language.
Yandruwandha is closely related to Yawarrawarrka. There are three dialects in Yandruwandha: Strezlecki, Nhirrpi and Biraliba.
AIATSIS id : L.18
VARIATIONS
Biralipa, Endawarra, Gandruwanda, Innamouka (place name, Innamincka), Jandrawanda, Jandruwalda, Jandruwanda, Jandruwandha, Jandruwanta, Janduruwanda, Jendru-wonta, Jandruwunta, Yandra Wandra, Yandrawontha, Yanderawantha, Yanderawartha, Yandrruwandha, Yandrruwantha, Yandruwandha (used by SIL), Yandrwanta, Yandruwantha (used by AIATSIS), Yandruwondha, Yandruwonta, Yandruwunta, Yandu-wulda, Yanruwandha, Yantowannta, Yantruwanta, Yanturwanta.
DISCLAIMER:
The above map is based upon the Horton Indigenous Map of Australia © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996. The full map is available on the AIATSIS website. The locations of the languages of SA, as stated on the this website are not intended for Land Claim use, and are an approximate guide only. Individual language project locations are based on information from publicly available MILR (ILS) documents.
REFERENCE AND SOURCE ARCHIVE
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AUSTIN, Peter K. 1989. Verb compounding in Central Australian languages. La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics 3: pp.171-201. VIEW HERE [[This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
AUSTIN, Peter Kenneth. 1990. Classification of Lake Eyre languages. In La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics 3: pp.171-201. VIEW HERE [[This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
BOWERN, Claire Louise. 1999. [Nhirrpi sentences and vocabulary]. [Glossed sentences recorded from Alice Miller in 1958; Nhirrpi (dialect of Yandruwandha) - English, English-Nhirrpi word lists with Yandruwandha and Wangkumara cognates.] AIATSIS print collection. []
BOWERN, Claire Louise. 1999-2001. Drafts and off-prints of papers 1999-2001. [[Includes a Nhirrpi sketch grammar, 2000]. Unpublished draft. AIATSIS print collection.]
BREEN, Gavan. n.d. Language elicitation from Western QLD. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 01244 - 01246a. Field tape numbers: 80, 91-99.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1967. Yandruwantha language elicitation. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Tape No.: 00611. Field tapes 17.1-17.2. [Lexical and grammatical elicitation of Yandruwantha with Nellie Parker, also known as Mrs. Tim Guttie, at Windorah.]]
BREEN, Gavan. 1967. Language elicitation and songs from Queensland. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 00603 - 00619. Field tape numbers: 1-34.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1967. Yandruwandha material. Windorah, Birdsville, Brisbane, Burra, Roma, Melbourne. AIATSIS print collection. MS 120. [[Annotation: Includes tape transcriptions, vocabularies (alphabetical and semantic); preliminary grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha].]
BREEN, Gavan. 1968. Language elicitation from south-west Queensland. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 01181 - 01190. Field tape numbers: 50-79.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1968. Language elicitation from Western QLD. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 01304 - 01306. Field tape numbers: 110-121. ]
BREEN, Gavan. 1970. Language elicitation and songs from western QLD. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 01874 - 01882. Field tape numbers: 169-186. ]
BREEN, Gavan. 1971. Aboriginal languages of western Queensland, (preliminary version). Linguistic Communications 5: pp. 1-88. [[Contains 100 word list]. [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
BREEN, Gavan. 1971. Language elicitation from Boulia and Karto Station, Qld. [[Annotation: Collection includes Djarada songs.] AIATSIS sound collection. Archive Nos.: 02135 - 02140. Field tape numbers: 228-239.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1972. Yandruwantha language elicitation and narratives, collected in Burra, SA. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 02419 - 02423. Field tape numbers: 258-267.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1973. Language elicitation and narratives from Western QLD, Burra SA and Bourke NSW. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 02842 - 02859. Field tape numbers: 346-381.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1974. Language elicitation from Queensland and northwest NSW. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 02231 - 02239. Field tape numbers: 240-257.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1974. Language elicitation from western QLD and northwest NSW. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 03256 - 03266. Field tape numbers: 455-476.]
BREEN, Gavan. 1976. Yandruwandha. In Dixon, R.M.W. Grammatical categories in Australian languages. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Humanities Press, Series 22; pp.290-7, pp.594-597, pp.750-6 . [[This material is available at the State Library of South Australia and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
BREEN, Gavan & KERWIN, Bennie, (d. 1976). 1990. Stories from Bennie Kerwin. In Language and history: essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus / edited by Peter Austin et al. Pacific Linguistics Series C-116, p. 67-87. [[This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
BREEN, Gavan. 1978. Language elicitation, songs and texts from Queensland. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 07439 - 07477. Field tape numbers: 557-595.]
BREEN, Gavan. 2004. Innamincka talk (the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects). VIEW HERE [Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. [ASEDA] [More technical language description intended for linguists and serious language learners.] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
BREEN, Gavan. 2004. Innamincka words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories.VIEW HERE [Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. [Easier to use than Breen, G. Innamincka talk (op.cit.), intended for everyone.] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
CORNISH, W. H. 1886. Coopers Creek, to the eastward of its northern branch. In Curr, E.M. The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent. Melbourne. Government Printer: Vol. 2, pp.28-29. VIEW HERE [[Annotation: may contain some Yandruwandha.] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.] ]
GREGORY, Geoffrey C. 1964. Language elicitation from northwest South Australia. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 00899 - 00900. Field tape numbers: 1-3.]
GREGORY, Geoffrey C. 1964. Yandruwandha language elicitation from Innamincka, SA. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive No: 00900. Field tape number 3. [Brief conversation about Yandruwandha country boundaries; sentences and vocabulary; verbs and sentence elicitation.]]
GREGORY, Geoffrey C. 1964. Yandruwandha language elicitation – continued . AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive No: 00900. Field tape numbers 3 and 4. [Continuation of interview with Bob Parker; sentence and vocabulary.]]
HERCUS, L. A. (Luise Anna), (1926-). 1967-1968. Language elicitation and songs from various parts of Australia. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 01063 - 01064. Field tape number(s): 48-50, 177-178.]
HERCUS, L. A. (Luise Anna). 1965-1970. Songs, mythology, language elicitation and oral history. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 02001 – 02126. Field tape numbers: 2-12, 15-16, 18-26, 40-57, 61, 63-66, 70-75, 77, 80, 86-100, 104-107, 113-114, 130-136, 138-143, 154, 156, 159-176, 178, 183, 188-191, 194-206, 212-215, 219, 221-231, 234-240, 253-255, 257, 259, 261-269, 274-284, 288, 297, 299-314, 317-331, 341-342 and 345-348. [Access: Restricted - some tapes are restricted – ceremonial and gender specific material.] [Annotation: group conversation about kinship amongst Wangganguru, Wanggadjaga, Jandruwanta and A]
HERCUS, L. A. (Luise Anna). 1984. Transcription of AIAS tapes LA 2062b, 2089b, 2118b. Canberra, AIATSIS print collection. []
HERCUS, L. A. (Luise Anna). 1984. Transcription of tapes 35, 161, 303, 678. Canberra, AIATSIS print collection. [[Closed access.] [ Conversations, personal histories, songs and language elicitation at Maree, Coober Pedy and Aroona Dam, SA, in Wangganuru, Arabena, Diyari and Jandruwanda; See also AIAS tapes 999b, 2064b, 2111a, 4294a.]]
HOWITT, A.W. (Alfred William), (1830-1908). 1878. ‘Notes on the Aborigines of Cooper’s Creek.’ In R.B. Smyth The Aborigines of Victoria, vol.2, pp.3000-309. Melbourne. VIEW HERE [[Earliest publication on Yandruwandha.] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
HOWITT, A.W. (Alfred William). 1904. Native tribes of south-east Australia. London: Macmillan (republished 1996 by Aboriginal Studies Press), p.92-94, 802-803. VIEW HERE [[Be careful – some words, including in the text, may be Ngamini or Diyari; also includes some hand-signs.] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
KERWIN, Bennie. 1986. The way it was: Yandruwandha story (Innamincka dialect) / transcribed by G. Breen. [In Hercus, L.A. & Sutton, P.J. eds. This what Happened: historical narratives by Aborigines. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies;pp.16-40. [With interlinear & free translations.] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in A]
KERWIN, Bennie & BREEN, Gavan. 1981. The land of stone chips [texts and translations in Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha language]. [Oceania 51,4: pp.286-311. [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
MENNING, Kathleen & NASH, David. 1981. Sourcebook for central Australian languages. Alice Springs, NT: Institute for Aboriginal Development. [[150 words].]
MOUNTFORD, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), (1890-1976). 1938-1963. Jandruwanta sound recordings. State Library of South Australia. Mountford sound collection: Disc 9 (Side 18 Yanruwandha tribe, Yadliyawara country Adnyamathanha); Disc 32 (Side 64 Adnyamathanha song. Pilatapa and Jandruwanta). [[Access: Restricted - ceremonial and gender specific material.] [Also held in AIATSIS sound collection. Field recordings made by Mountford during various expeditions, including the Adelaide Board for Anthropological Research and the American-Australian Expedition to Arnhem Land (1938-1963). Archive Nos.: 02901 – 02933. Field tape numbers: 1-75, 1-24, 1-16.]]
PATERSON, Aaron. n.d. Yandruwandha research project [[Pundulmurra College].]
REUTHER, J. G. (Johann Georg), (1861-1914). 1981. The Diari / translated by the Reverend Phillip A. Scherer (with v.5, Three central Australian grammars -Diari, Jandruwanta, Wonkanjuru, by J.G. Reuther, translated by T. Schwarzschild and L.A. Hercus : edited by L.A. Hercus and J. G. Breen. Additional notes on the Diari by P. Austin). Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. [[Physical descrip: 13 v. on 49 sheets of microfiche] [This material is available at the State Library of South Australia, Barr Smith and other libraries in Adelaide.]]
REUTHER, J.G. n.d. 379 Reuther comparative 7 [[Jendruwonta; Wonkaranta- Reuther JW; Ngaumeni; Tirari- Reuther NT; Wonkarabana; Jauraworka -Reuther WJ; Wonkanguru; Kujani -Reuther WK] [Vocabulary: 16 files, 1332 kB, ~1740 entries] [ASEDA]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). 1965. Conversations and narratives in Yandruwantha. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos: 00031. Field tapes 11. [Conversations and monologues in Yandruwantha with Murtee Johnny and Robert Parker, recorded in Marree, January 1965.]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). 1965. Conversations and narratives in Yandruwantha. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos: 00030; Field tape 10. [Conversations and monologues in Yandruwantha with Murtee Johnny and Robert Parker, recorded in Marree, January 1965.]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). 1965. Conversations in Yandruwantha. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos: 00030. Field tape 9. [Conversations in Yandruwantha between Murtee Johnny and Robert Parker in Marree, January 1965.]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). 1965. Yandruwantha language elicitation. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive No: 00026. Field tape 1. [Elicitation of Yandruwantha vocabulary and sentences with Bob Parker at Leigh Creek in January, 1965.]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). 1965. Yandruwantha language elicitation. [Archive No: 00027. Field tape 3. [Elicitation of Yandruwantha vocabulary and sentences with Bob Parker at Lyndhurst in January, 1965.]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). 1965. Yandruwantha language elicitation. AIATSIS sound collection. Archive No: 00028. Field tape 6. [[Access: Restricted - personal material.] [Yandruwantha sentence elicitation with Robert Parker at Lyndhurst in January, 1965. This track also features biographical information and sentence elicitation in an unidentified language with an unidentified female speaker who makes several references to Marree.]]
SCHEBECK, B. (Bernhard). n.d. Language elicitation and songs from Yirrkala and SA. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 00010 – 00033. Field tape number(s): 2-11,13-15,22,28,36-38,40-43, 45-6,51-53,80-81,91-92 1-10(Jandruwanta-At.). [Access: Restricted - personal material.]]
SHARPE, E. 1901. YandruWandra tribe, Queensland [vocabulary]. Science of Man 3,12: pp.208-209. [[Approx. 120 words].]
TINDALE, Norman B. (Norman Barnett), (1900-1993). 1932. Journal of anthropological expedition to the Diamantina, N.E. of South Australia, Aug. 1934. [[Held by South Australian Museum. Identifier: AA 338/1/12.]]
TINDALE, Norman B. (Norman Barnett). 1934 - c.1976 ‘Parallel Vocabularies.’ [[Held in the South Australian Museum. Identifier: AA 338/8/20.]]
TREFRY, David. 1965 – 1967. Yandruwanda, Dieri, and Yauraworga language elicitation, SA. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos.: 00653 – 00659. Field tape numbers: FT 1- 28.]
WURM, S. A. (Stephen Adolphe), (1922-2001). 1955 - 1960. Language elicitation and songs from Northern NSW and Southern Qld. AIATSIS sound collection. [Archive Nos: 02880 – 02895. Field tape number(s): NG4, 1957/1-9, 55A1-4, 60/9-36.]
WURM, S. A. (Stephen Adolphe). 1976. Fieldnotes - Janduruwanta / transcribed by Peter Austin. Canberra. []