15-543: Wambaya may refer to: Wambaya people Wambaya language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wambaya . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wambaya&oldid=882196288 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
30-486: A particular tract of land and, through that connection, to the language associated with that place. Thus the Wambaya people are Wambaya because they are linked to places which are associated with the Wambaya language, and therefore speak Wambaya. The explorer David Lindsay remarked on the fine build of the Wambaya and other tableland peoples he encountered, with many as tall as 6 feet or over. The Wambaya language belongs to
45-634: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Wambaya people The Wambaya people , also spelt Umbaia , Wombaia and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the southern Barkly Tableland of the Northern Territory . Their language is the Wambaya language . Their traditional lands have now been taken over by large cattle stations . The Wambaya are an Indigenous Australian people of
60-626: The Barkly language Jingulu only shares 9% of its vocabulary with its Yirram relative, the Ngaliwurru dialect of the Jaminjung language , it shares 28% with the nearby Ngumpin language Mudburra . The Jingulu language shares 29% and 28% of its vocabulary with the Wambaya language and the Ngarnka language respectively. The Ngarnka language shares 60% of its vocabulary with the Wambaya language , while
75-635: The Mirndi family of the non-Pama-Nyungan languages . Noting its unusual word ordering properties, Emily M. Bender described it as a "radically non-configurational language with a second position auxiliary/clitic cluster". She used it to illustrate the LinGO Grammar Matrix. The first colonial intruders into Wambaya lands were struck by the rich pasturing prospects they detected in the vast plains of Mitchell grass with their lagoons, streams and springs. Large herds of cattle were introduced to graze over
90-604: The Wambaya language . These three dialects are collectively referred to as the McArthur River languages. Due to the close contact been the Yirram languages and the Ngurlun languages , and the Ngumpin languages and other languages as well, many of the cognates that the Yirram and Ngurlun languages share may in fact be loanwords, especially of Ngumpin origin. For instance, while
105-674: The Brunette and Creswell Creeks . Working clockwise, their northern neighbours were the Ngarnka , with Waanyi on their eastern flank and the Wakaya , and then the Warumungu south with the Warlmanpa further west. R. H. Mathews was the first to describe the class system governing marriage rules of the Wambaya, and used his model as a Wambaya pattern for an Australian intermarriage structure based on eight sectional divisions. In terms of identity,
120-515: The Mirndi classification, making it less secure than generally accepted." Nonetheless, as of 2008 proto-Mirndi has been reconstructed. Nungali Jaminjung Jingulu Ngarnka Wambaya An additional language may be added, Ngaliwurru . However, it is unsure whether it is a language on its own, or merely a dialect of the Jaminjung language . The same is true for Gudanji and Binbinka , although these are generally considered dialects of
135-420: The Wambaya, an encampment they retained on the lagoon, and shift them 60 miles north to Corella Creek. Mirndi languages The Mirndi or Mindi languages are an Australian language family spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia . The family consists of two sub-groups and an isolate branch: the Yirram languages , and the Ngurlun languages and Jingulu language some 200 km farther to
150-450: The languages in the family in the form of either mind- or mirnd- . The family has been generally accepted after being first established by Neil Chadwick in the early 1980s. The genetic relationship is primarily based upon morphology and not lexical comparison , with the strongest evidence being found among the pronouns. However, "there are very few other systematic similarities in other areas of grammar[, which] throw some doubts on
165-539: The passage of a ruling by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission establishing the principle of Equal pay for equal work in the outback, station owners reacted by dismissing their black employees, which meant many Wambaya established in the industry were fired and forced to drift away. The managers of the Brunette Downs Station endeavoured to bulldoze the last remaining trace of
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#1732854845299180-460: The southeast, separated by the Ngumpin languages . The primary difference between the two sub-groups is that while the Yirram languages are all prefixing like other non-Pama–Nyungan languages , the Ngurlun languages are all suffixing like most Pama–Nyungan languages . The name of the family is derived from the dual inclusive pronoun ('we', in the sense of 'you and I') which is shared by all
195-465: The southern side of the Barkly Tableland , whose lands were estimated by Tindale to have stretched over some 8,100 square miles (21,000 km ). Their western frontier ran to Eva Downs, while to the east they inhabited the area as far as Mount Morgan . The southern limits were around Alroy Downs . They were present at Anthony Lagoon , Corella Lake , Brunette Downs , and Alexandria , and about
210-406: The tableland, edging out the kangaroo , emus and bustards which had been the hunting staple of the original inhabitants. The Wambaya eventually adapted by taking on work in the cattle industry, though for a long time they were paid less than white stockmen. As late as the 1960s they received a pittance of $ 6 a week, as opposed to the standard white man's weekly wage $ 46, for the same labour. With
225-434: The way a language describes the landscape in which its speakers live defines their identity. In the case of the Wambaya people this means, as Harold Koch and Rachel Nordlinger state it, following an observation by Nicholas Evans that: in creation myths it is very common for the ancestors to be described as passing across the lands instilling different languages into different areas as they go. People are then connected to
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