110-item wordlists for the Yandruwandha group (Pama-Nyungan family).
Languages included: Yandruwandha.
Yandruwandha
Yandruwandha was spoken in the Lakes Country of northeastern South Australia. The list below refers to the Innamincka dialect, which was studied by
Gavan Breen in 1971-1976 (Breen 2015a; Breen 2015b). The last speakers of Innamincka Yandruwandha were Benny Kerwinn and his wife Tim Guttie.
Benny’s last session as a linguistic informant was a day before he died on 8th January 1976. Information on other closely related idioms such as Strzelecki
Yandruwandha, Yawarrawarrka and Nhirrpi is given when it was possible.
Gavan Breen
MosLex
p
p
b
b
m
m
w
w
t
t
d
d
d (word initial)
ɖ
dr
dʳ
n
n
l
l
dl
ᴌ
rt
ʈ
rd
ɖ
rdr
ɖʳ
rn
ɳ
rl
ɭ
rdl
ᴌ
r
r (actually ɻ)
rnt
ɳʈ
rnd
ɳɖ
rndr
ɳɖʳ
th
t
dh
d
nh
n
lh
l
nth
n
t
ndh
n
d
lth
l
t
tj
ȶ
dj
ȡ
ny
ɲ
ly
ʎ
rr
rʸ
y
y
ntj
ɲȶ
ndj
ɲȡ
ltj
ʎȶ
k
k
g
g
ng
ŋ
n.g
ng
u
u
i
i
a
a
References
Breen, Gavan. 2015a. Innamincka words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories. Canberra: Australian National University.
Breen, Gavan. 2015b. Innamincka talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. Canberra, Australia:
ANU Press.
Author:
Yandruwandha: Ilya Egorov, August 2021.
