Lower Burdekin languages facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Lower Burdekin |
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| Region | Queensland, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Juru? Bindal? |
| Extinct | ca. 1900 |
| Language family |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
Cunningham vocabulary
Gorton vocabulary
O'Connor vocabulary (Yuru)
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| Linguist List | xbb |
| AIATSIS | E62 Yuru |
The Burdekin River in 2005
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Lower Burdekin languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)
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The Lower Burdekin languages were probably three distinct Australian Aboriginal languages spoken around the mouth of the Burdekin River in north Queensland. One short wordlist in each was collected in the 19th century, and published in the second volume of The Australian Race in 1886. These languages have since gone extinct, with no more having been recorded. Due to the paucity of the available data, almost nothing of their grammatical structure is known.
The O'Connor language goes by the name Yuru, and may have been Dyirbalic; others may have been Maric. However, Breen analyzed two of the lists and concluded that they were different languages, neither Maric. He presumes that one of them was Bindal.
| English | Cunningham vocabulary |
Gorton vocabulary |
O'Connor vocabulary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kangaroo | hoora | wootha | arragoo |
| Opossum | moonganna | goong | onehunger |
| Tame dog | oogier | minde | oodoodoo |
| Emu | kowwerra | goondaloo | karboonmillery |
| Black duck | yammooroo | buggininulli | hoorooburry |
| Wood duck | mumboogooba | detto | culburh |
| Pelican | boloona | booloon | dooroomully |
| Laughing jackass | kowurgurra | kookaburra | karcoobura |
| Native companion | braroogan | buberenulli | kooroogowgun |
| White cockatoo | digooi | bugina | bunginna |
| Crow | wyaguna | wethergun | wombugah |
| Swan | woergerella | ||
| Egg | wyoorda | werroo | gunnoo |
| Track of a foot | dooigooburra | yulmun | |
| Fish | weenburra | kooia | weambura |
| Lobster | koongooya | goonaway | boogurrie |
| Crayfish | goombarroo | inundah | |
| Mosquito | kowearoo | dee | hoonhoono |
| Fly | karoovella | nin | |
| Snake | oongullab | wormbaloo | boongi (carpet) |
| The Blacks | murre | dulgooh | |
| A Blackfellow | dulgooh | ||
| A Black woman | wurrungooa | gungan | tudgegun |
| Nose | urrooa | woodroo | wuneary |
| Hand | mobirra | mulbroo | wurrumby |
| 2 Blacks | blarin dulgooh | ||
| 3 Blacks | wungoo dulgooh | ||
| One | warmina | warrin | |
| Two | blareena | bool | blarin |
| Three | kudjua | ka | wungoo |
| Four | kulburra | murragi | |
| Father | kiya | yaba, yabo | abah |
| Mother | younga | yanga | yunguma |
| Sister—Elder | kootha | kooda | |
| Brother—Elder | wabooa | kudun | |
| A young man | karrebella | thillagal | deebahgul |
| An old man | booingermunna | bunganan | nuganugamun |
| An old woman | boingergunna | bulnagun | bundeyun |
| A baby | mullererammoo | cowla | |
| A White man | yooarroo | yuarroo | |
| Children | erroomunna | moolaramoo | |
| Head | kurria | kabbon | karboyan |
| Eye | mudjura | deburri | deebara |
| Ear | awbilla [sic] | wobbilla | kungun |
| Mouth | da | yawirra | unga |
| Teeth | irra | woonung | dingull |
| Hair of the head | gunnarri | targuinn | |
| Beard | thungier | thungi | talba |
| Thunder | degoroo | digoro | burrahroo |
| Grass | wudthoor | quwytho | narahminie |
| Tongue | thullamia | dulling | |
| Stomach | bunboona | borlo | boonda |
| Thigh | toomburra | thoombur | duburrin |
| Foot | dingooburra | bulliger | dingooburra |
| Bone | bulbanna | mimmoon | |
| Blood | gwiburri | moondtha | queeberry |
| Skin | yoolanna | uline | mindeer |
| Fat | towie | koonoo, goomo | boongaroo |
| Bowels | gurroona | kullinga | yaboo |
| War-spear | nirremoo | woomburro | woolunbura |
| Reed-spear | wollaburra | (none used) | |
| Wommera or throwing-stick | birrana | buddurrie | |
| Shield | goolmurri | gooldinare | poodda poodda |
| Tomahawk | bulgooa | nubanin | oolun |
| Canoe | kobbetheba | bettel-bettel | karbeyal |
| Sun | burgorri | kartri | mulloun |
| Moon | bowarri | waboonburra | |
| Star | bunjoldi | tor, bangala | dirilger |
| Light | burgungubba | baragunna | |
| Dark | wooroowobba | moonoo | wulhurrie |
| Cold | didoora | detto | orbehgun |
| Heat | towarroo | moondo moondo | |
| Day | woorabunda | unbur | |
| Night | wooroonga | woormooga | |
| Fire | wygunna | booninin | neebull |
| Water | kowara | thoolanoo | dunjun |
| Smoke | toogar | doongin | |
| Ground | nannier | numera | dingur |
| Wind | quioona | queeyon | uinne |
| Rain | yoogana | broothi | marroo |
| Wood | doola | dulla | moora |
| Stone | burreea | burtheroo | bungil |
| Camp | yaamba | yamba | midera |
| Yes | yea | umba | yu yow |
| No | kurra | kateka | karbil |
| I | iyooa | uda | |
| You | yindooa | ninda | |
| Bark | bulgan | boogoo | bulgun |
| Good | boongoon | ||
| Bad | kooyooa | diga | |
| Sweet | kowangubba | goondi | |
| Food | igango | dungee, ogoo | |
| Hungry | nagnoora | kabbil | garoo |
| Thirsty | dthunginna | armboo yulburana | |
| Eat | igango | dulgee ogoo | |
| Sleep | boogoora | boogooroo | boog oggba |
| Drink | bithungo | bitthana | kudge ogoo |
| Walk | kunnaigo | warin | |
| See | timmi | thimmi | na |
| Sit | thunnango | thunara | duri |
| Yesterday | yambowerroe | dirrierih | |
| To-day | nilla | nilla | cudgin |
| To-morrow | burgenda | burringa | burrigunda |
| Where are the Blacks? | ondia murre? | ulba dalgul? | |
| I don't know | kurra mira | carbilbrather | |
| Plenty | qniarilla [sic] | murrgi | |
| Big | wiarra | yunga | |
| Little | wa-baw-au-boona | wabungam | arbooro |
| Dead | waulgoona | wolgoon | walgoon |
| By-and-by | thagoo | boodinhi | |
| Come on | kowa | kooa |
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