The Warrnambool language:
A consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool
area of the western district of Victoria based on nineteenth-century
sources
Barry Blake
This book is a consolidated
account of the Warrnambool language of the Western District
of Victoria based on early sources. It is intended to serve
as a convenient reference for the Aboriginal people of the
Warrnambool area and for all researchers. It is part of a
series of consolidated accounts of Victorian languages that
I and others have produced and are producing. Each account
brings together early source material, mostly from the nineteenth
century, and incorporates the recordings made by Luise Hercus
where they are available. These recordings date from the 1960s
and are the only work by a modern linguist based on tape-recordings
of speakers. In the case of the Warrnambool language only
thirty-five words could be recorded. Sadly it is no longer
possible to find people who still remember substantial parts
of any of the languages once spoken in Victoria.
Each account involves some interpretation of the source material.
In particular it involves transcribing early notations into
a consistent broad phonetic form and restating points of grammar
in current terminology.
Published: 2003
PL 544, ISBN (Paperback): ISBN 0 85883
543 6 7
Pages: xiii + 223 pp
Prices: Australia A$49.50 (inc. GST), Overseas
A$45.00
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