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Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia
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Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia Paperback - 2001

by Juliette Blevins


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This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.

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  • Title Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia
  • Author Juliette Blevins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii
  • Date August 2001
  • ISBN 9780824823757 / 0824823753
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.06 x 0.49 in (22.96 x 15.39 x 1.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
  • Library of Congress subjects Nhanda language - Grammar, Nhanda language
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001027742
  • Dewey Decimal Code 499
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