Turrbal language
| Turrbal | |
|---|---|
| Yagara | |
| Region | Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Turrbal, Jagera |
| Extinct | No |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yxg |
| Glottolog | yaga1256 Yagara-Jandai |
| AIATSIS[1] | E86 Turubul, E23 Jagara |
| ELP | Yagara |
Turrbal, also spelt Turubul and Turrubal, and also known as Yagara (Jagara/Jagera), is an Aboriginal Australian language of Queensland.
Other spellings of Turrbal are Turrabul, Toorbal, Tarabul; variants of Yagara are Ugarapul, Yuggarabul, Yuggera, Yuggarapul, Yackarabul.
The four dialects listed in Dixon (2002)[2] are sometimes seen as separate Durubalic languages, especially Jandai and Nunukul; Yagara and Turrbul proper are more likely to be considered dialects.[1]
Influence on other languages
The Australian English word 'yakka', an informal term referring to any work, especially of strenuous kind, comes from the Yagara word 'yaga', the verb for 'work'.[3]
The literary journal Meanjin takes its name from meanjin, a Turrbal word meaning "spike", referring to the spike of land Brisbane was later built on.[4]
References
- ^ a b E86 Turubul at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of English, p 2,054.
- ^ "Meanjin debacle: erasing Aboriginal words in order to highlight white women's appropriation". NITV.
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