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Barngarla language
Barngarla, formerly known as Parnkalla, is an Aboriginal language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. It was formerly extinct, but has undergone a process of revival since 2012.
The last native speaker of the language died in 1964. However, the language has been revived thanks to the work of a German Lutheran pastor Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann, who worked at a mission in 1844 and recorded 3,500 (or 2000?) words to form a Barngarla dictionary, entitled A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla [Barngarla] Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf.
In 2012 the chair of linguistics and endangered languages at the University of Adelaide, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, started working with the Barngarla community to revive and reclaim the Barngarla language, based on Schürmann's work. Language revival workshops are held in Port Augusta, Whyalla, and Port Lincoln several times each year, with funding from the federal government's Indigenous Languages Support program.
In 2015, linguist Mark Clendon produced a detailed analysis of Schürmann's 1844 grammar of Barngarla (later revised in 2018). This work would expand greatly on Schürmann's documentation by contrasting his work with other Barngarla documentation (such as that of Luise Hercus and Harry Crawford) as well as using comparative linguistics to fill in grammatical gaps within the language thanks to the documentation of other Thura-Yura languages. Notably, this work conflicts both in grammar and orthography with the "revived" form of Barngarla developed by Zuckermann in conjunction with the modern Barngarla community.
In October 2016, a mobile app featuring a dictionary of over 3,000 Barngarla words was publicly released.
Wardlada Mardinidhi / Barngarla Bush Medicines, a 24-page book, was published in July 2023. It is the third book co-written by Zuckermann and members of the Richards family of Port Lincoln, this time represented by Evelyn Walker. It records the names a number of native plants from around Port Lincoln in Barngarla, Latin, and English, and describes their use as bush medicine. Walker hopes that the book will form part of a program to help youth and others affected by the Stolen Generations to reconnect with their culture and language, improving their mental health.
Barngarla has the following consonant phonemes:
Barngarla has the following vowel phonemes:
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Barngarla language
Barngarla, formerly known as Parnkalla, is an Aboriginal language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. It was formerly extinct, but has undergone a process of revival since 2012.
The last native speaker of the language died in 1964. However, the language has been revived thanks to the work of a German Lutheran pastor Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann, who worked at a mission in 1844 and recorded 3,500 (or 2000?) words to form a Barngarla dictionary, entitled A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla [Barngarla] Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf.
In 2012 the chair of linguistics and endangered languages at the University of Adelaide, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, started working with the Barngarla community to revive and reclaim the Barngarla language, based on Schürmann's work. Language revival workshops are held in Port Augusta, Whyalla, and Port Lincoln several times each year, with funding from the federal government's Indigenous Languages Support program.
In 2015, linguist Mark Clendon produced a detailed analysis of Schürmann's 1844 grammar of Barngarla (later revised in 2018). This work would expand greatly on Schürmann's documentation by contrasting his work with other Barngarla documentation (such as that of Luise Hercus and Harry Crawford) as well as using comparative linguistics to fill in grammatical gaps within the language thanks to the documentation of other Thura-Yura languages. Notably, this work conflicts both in grammar and orthography with the "revived" form of Barngarla developed by Zuckermann in conjunction with the modern Barngarla community.
In October 2016, a mobile app featuring a dictionary of over 3,000 Barngarla words was publicly released.
Wardlada Mardinidhi / Barngarla Bush Medicines, a 24-page book, was published in July 2023. It is the third book co-written by Zuckermann and members of the Richards family of Port Lincoln, this time represented by Evelyn Walker. It records the names a number of native plants from around Port Lincoln in Barngarla, Latin, and English, and describes their use as bush medicine. Walker hopes that the book will form part of a program to help youth and others affected by the Stolen Generations to reconnect with their culture and language, improving their mental health.
Barngarla has the following consonant phonemes:
Barngarla has the following vowel phonemes: