Rebecca Green - Mudburra to English Dictionary

Mudburra to English Dictionary

Mudburra

to English Dictionary

COMPILED BY:

Rebecca Green, Jennifer Green,

Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, Felicity Meakins,

David Osgarby, Rob Pensalfini

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:

Pharlap Dilkbarri Dixon, Jumbo Kijilikarri Collins,

Sue Lady Mangkanjangiwarra Dixon,

Lucy Hughes, Albert Lalka Crowson,

Shannon Kulngankarri Dixon,

Janey Walanyku Lunjabirni Dixon,

Ray Dimakarri Dixon, Wendy Hughes,

Maureen Bill, Susan Kingston, Raylene Bill,

Bernie Dixon, Jeffrey Manawurda Dixon,

Todman Dixon

WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:

Glenn Wightman, Patrick McConvell,

David Nash, Mary Laughren

Published by Aboriginal Studies Press

Mudburra language: Mudburra people 2019

Dictionary compilation: Rebecca Green, Jennifer Green, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, Felicity Meakins, David Osgarby and Rob Pensalfini 2019

Illustrations: Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport; Brenda Thornley; Jennifer Green; Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation; Catholic Education Office Kimberley Region 2012

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Mudburra to English Dictionary / compiled by Rebecca Green, Jennifer Green, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, Felicity Meakins, David Osgarby and Rob Pensalfini

ISBN: 978-1-9253025-7-8

Mudburra language Dictionaries English

English language Dictionaries Mudburra

Other Authors/Contributors:

Green, Rebecca, 1963

Green, Jennifer, 1954

Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda Rose, 1984

Meakins, Felicity Helen, 1977

Osgarby, David John, 1992

Pensalfini, Rob, 1968

The Mudburra knowledge in this book is the intellectual property of the Mudburra people. This knowledge should be used only with written consent of the intellectual property owners and with proper attribution.

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Illustrations from the following sources are used with permission: Milton Andrews, Adi Dunlop, Beth Crase, Valerie Alexander and Monika Osterkamp (NTREAS); David le May (Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation); Jennifer Green (University of Melbourne); Jacqueline Floyd, Annette Lands, Monica Lee, Mystique Dia, Phil Belfrage, Raymond Edney, Susie Rodgers, Carol Tangwei and Robyn Wells in Kimberley Clipart, Aboriginal Designs and Borders, Catholic Education Office Kimberley Region.

Photos and map used with permission from Felicity Meakins, Rob Pensalfini, David Nash, Peter Sutton, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, David Osgarby, Elle Frederickson, Yasmin Smith, Jennifer Green, Rod Hagen, Thelma Dixon and Glenn Wightman.

Front cover image is Jabiru, Janey Dixon 2018; courtesy of Barkly Arts.

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Contents

Preface

This dictionary is the result of a 60-year collaboration between Mudburra people, linguists and an ethnobiologist. Sadly, many of the main Mudburra contributors involved in the project have not lived to see the completed dictionary. Nevertheless, we hope this dictionary can help their extensive knowledge live on for generations to come.

The documentation of Mudburra words and grammar began with wordlists by Stanner (1934) and Capell (1940). Then, in 1960, Tommy Ngarrkuliyi made the first recordings of his language, Eastern Mudburra, with Kenneth Hale. These tapes were multilingual; Mudburra was elicited along with Kaytetye, Warlmanpa and Jingulu. Hale also produced field notes to accompany these recordings. These notes include around 144 Mudburra words. Between 1974 and 1975, recordings of Eastern Mudburra were made by Patrick McConvell, Nugget Beetaloo, Pharlap Dixon and Charlie Bill at Kulumindini (Elliott). During this time, Albert Crowson, Sambo Jilkijkarri, Hobbles Daniyarri, Timmy Yilngayari and Anzac Jangari (speakers of Western Mudburra) also worked with McConvell at Daguragu. McConvell was also the principal anthropologist in the Yingawunarri Mudburra Land Claim. In 1976 and 1978, Smiler Major and Tasaku Tsunoda worked together on Mudburra at Nicholson Station.

In 1977, dictionary work began in earnest with David Nash. Nash was the first to digitally collate all previous sources on Mudburra into a single dictionary file, as well as to undertake further recordings with a number of speakers of Eastern Mudburra. He continued that work until 1992. Hugh Belfrage also compiled more notes and added to the early version of the Mudburra dictionary. Then, between 1996 and 2000, Rebecca Green visited Elliott and Marlinja (Newcastle Waters) to edit the existing dictionary file and to record more headwords and example sentences with Pharlap and Lady Dixon. Finally, from 2015 to 2019, a team of linguists, Mudburra elders and a biologist worked together in Elliott and Marlinja to check and greatly expand the dictionary. The members of this team were Maureen Bill, Raylene Bill, Bernie Dixon, Janey Dixon, Jeffrey Dixon, Raymond Dixon, Shannon Dixon, Todman Dixon, Jennifer Green, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, Wendy Hughes, Susan Kingston, Felicity Meakins, David Osgarby, Rob Pensalfini and Glenn Wightman.

The Mudburra bio-cultural knowledge in this dictionary comes from Jingulu and Mudburra Plants and Animals (Raymond et al, 2018). This work began in the 1970s at Daguragu by Albert Lalka Crowson and Patrick McConvell, who sent plant specimens to the CSIRO in Canberra for identification. David Nash then continued this work with Donald Graham and Norah Graham through the 1980s, with Lady Dixon in the early 1990s, and with Pharlap Dixon in 1999. Nash also drew on the work of Mona Rennie, along with Deborah Bird Roses work at Yarralin and Darrell Lewis Major vegetation types along the Murranji Track (in his Report on the History and Historic Sites of the Murranji Stock Route for the National Trust). Nash also added information from Andy Barr, Joan Chapman, Nick Smith and Maree Beveridges Traditional Bush Medicines: An Aboriginal Pharmacopoeia (1988); amendments were made by Rita Albert, Kimby Kingston and Sharon Bill during a Mudburra literacy course with lists extracted by Gavan Breen from Nashs wordlist. Additionally, Nash incorporated work from Peter Sutton, who collected plant and animal terms as a part of his research during the Murranji Land Claim (19801983). Rebecca Green also collected bio-cultural knowledge with Pharlap Dixon, Lady Dixon and Lucy Hughes from 1996 to 2000. Finally, Glenn Wightman, Felicity Meakins and Rob Pensalfini worked from 2015 to 2018 to compile all of this work, check it and complete