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Kaurna (/ ˈ ɡ ɑːr n ə / or / ˈ ɡ aʊ n ə /) is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.The Kaurna peoples are made up of various tribal clan groups, each with their own parnkarra district of land and local dialect.
The name Kaurna was not recorded until 1879, used by Alfred William Howitt in 1904, [2] but not widely used until popularised by Norman B. Tindale in the 1920s. [3] Most likely, it is an exonym introduced from the Ramindjeri or Ngarrindjeri word kornar meaning "men" or "people". [3]
50 [6] Qld Karajarri language, Karadjeri language [1] Garadjari, Garadjeri, Garadjiri, Garadyari, Gard'are, Guradjara, Karrajarri 12 (1991 SIL) Critically endangered WA Kariyarra language: Gariera, Kaierra, Kariara, Kariera, Karriara, Karriarra, Kariyara, Kyeara WA Kaurna language [1] Critically endangered SA Kawarrangg language: Qld Kayardild ...
In 2019 the Royal Australian Mint issued a 50-cent coin to celebrate the International Year of Indigenous Languages which features 14 different words for "money" from Australian Indigenous languages. [41] [42] The coin was designed by Aleksandra Stokic in consultation with Indigenous language custodian groups. [42]
[6] [a] Their territory coincides quite precisely with the range of the peppermint gum, which explains why the Kaurna people's exonym for them was Wirameju, meaning in Kaurna "peppermint gum forest people". [1] [6] To the northeast, they took in the area Waukaringa and Koonamore. The districts of Peterborough, Burra and Robertstown are in ...
William Wyatt (1804 – 10 June 1886) was an early settler and philanthropist in South Australia.He was the third interim Protector of Aborigines in the colony between 1837 and 1839, worked on documenting the Kaurna language of the local Australian Aboriginal inhabitants of Adelaide and was a member of many boards, in fields as diverse as education, medicine and horticulture.
[10] All of the "Adelaide tribe" – Kaurna language – words starting with "Yanga" mean something to do with wife or women in the 1840 Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology of the Aboriginal language of South Australia by Teichelmann and Schurmann. Yankalilla is the Place of Fallen Bits and the crumbling cliff line in Yankalilla ...
She shared many Kaurna words and place-names with them, as well as insights into aspects of Kaurna culture and the early colonial history of Adelaide. She was considered such an important source that the Anthropological Society of South Australia paid her expenses to travel from Moonta down to Adelaide to be interviewed in 1928. [15]