Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The Bundjalung (Bandjalang) dialects, including Gidabal,1 formed a particularly welldefined language group in a clearly defined geographical area as shown in Map 1.As a group of dialects Bundjalung was well recorded, with the earliest grammar of one of the dialects being published over 90 years ago (Livingstone 1892); there are earlier word lists (CurrVol.3,1887), and grammars of other dialects published in 1913 (Allen and Lane), 1942 (Smythe), 1967 (Cunningham), 1971 (Geytenbeek and Geytenbeek), 1978 (Crowley), and 1985 (Sharpe).Archaeological work and sacred sites have also been well documented in this area, and there are studies of the social organisation.An attempt to reconstruct migration and social contact patterns using a cross-disciplinary approach therefore seems worthwhile.Archaeological, language, geographical, ethnohistorical and ethnomusical data are looked at in this paper. Margaret Sharpe is a lecturer at Armidate College o f Advanced Education in theCentre for Multicultural Studies.She has spent part o f her academic life studying the Alawa and Bundjalung languages o f the Northern Territory and Northern New South Wales-Southern Queensland area respectively.Since 1969 she has published two monographs and numerous articles on these languages as well as other articles on Aboriginal English and Northern Territory Kriol and a children' s novel based on her research in these areas.
Source: Aboriginal History Journal
Author: Margaret C. Sharpe
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2285673335