Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The NOlihern Flinders Ranges are the home of the Adnya-mathanha people, 'the people of the rocky hills', whose language is related to the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains.The CurSOlY analysis presented here is based on a sample of 483 placenames in the Flinders Ranges.This number is subject to the understanding that it is not always clear whether two entries are really two names or rather two 'spellings' of the same name.But for the present brief survey I simply ignore such questions.I shall also disregard the question of 'one versus two words', for instance spellings such as Idhiawi versus Idhi Awi.This might appear to be a minor decision, but I shall briefly argue below that the decision of what is a genuine name is perhaps not so clear-cut.Of these 483 names I have assigned 139, almost one-third of the total, to the 'descriptive class'.In order of frequency I have found the following:1.1 Names containing awi 'water' 41 end in -awi 'water'.These names represent almost one-third of the 'descriptive class': 5 end in awi urtu 'waterho1e'.So, this is quite a small subclass.3 (or perhaps 4) begin with awi 'water'.So, this too is a small subclass.This paper is a sequel to the research of Hercus and Potezny (1999).In mid-1999 I wrote a letter to Luise Herclls, in which I made some comments on this article, whereupon I was encouraged to work those remarks into a paper.This is the result.I wish to thank Luise Hercus also for providing me with a draft copy of her contribution to the present volume.Due to external circumstances, my own material is not fully accessible to me and, therefore, the bulk of the examples is drawn from what is known through the publications of other people, mainly John McEntee and Dorotby Tunbridge.My own recordings are still only partially accessible to me at the time of writing.In other words, if an explanation given to me is quoted here, this is done only from memOlY.L. Hercus, F. Hodges and 1. Simpson, cds, The Land is a Map: placenames a/Indigenolls origin in Australia, 140~153.
Source: ANU Press eBooks
Author: Bernhard Schebeck
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2912972578