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Threlkeld's work was greatly expanded by John Fraser and republished in 1892 as An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) being an account of their language, traditions and customs / by L.E. Threlkeld; re-arranged, condensed and edited with an appendix by John ...
The Awabakal language was recorded by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and Awabakal Leader Birabahn in 'An Australian grammar : comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake MacQuarie & New South Wales' -'and this is the first, and most comprehensive record of any indigenous language in Australia.
An Australian grammar : comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language, as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake Macquarie, &c. New South Wales is a book written by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and published in Sydney in 1834. It is a grammar of the Awabakal language.
Reverend Dr John Fraser (1834 – 1904) was an Australian ethnologist, linguist, school headmaster and author of many scholarly works.He is known for his revised and expanded version of Lancelot Threlkeld's 1834 work, An Australian Grammar, with the new title An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) being an ...
Haslam, P. "Awabakal songs from the 1950s" (PDF). The University of Newcastle Library, Cultural Collections. The University of Newcastle Library, Cultural Collections. Threlkeld, L. E. , "Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld Papers, 1822-1862" , Rediscovering Indigenous Languages , State Library of New South Wales , retrieved 21 September 2017
Worimi is a small family of two to five mostly extinct Australian Aboriginal languages of New South Wales.. Awabakal, spoken around Lake Macquarie in New South Wales. Awabakal was studied by Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld from 1825 until his death in 1859, assisted by Biraban, the tribal leader, and parts of the Bible were translated into the language.
Threlkeld published a book describing the Awabakal language: An Australian Grammar, comprehending the Principles and Natural Rules of the Language, as spoken by the Aborigines, in the vicinity of Hunter's river, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. [26] This was followed in 1836 by An Australian Spelling Book in the Language spoken by the ...
In 1892, Fraser had published a revised and expanded edition [5] of Lancelot Threlkeld's 1834 work on the Awabakal language, An Australian Grammar, [6] in which he created his own names for groupings, such as Yunggai, Wachigari and Yakkajari.