Created 9 October 1998
Modified 8 November 2003

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Barry Alpher's language index to Laves catalogue

B Alpher <alpher@attglobal.net>
27 April '88

NSW languages in Laves notes
(Laves' page numbering)

  1. Gumbainggir: extensive, from folder 1.2; 5.1,5.2,5.3
  2. Gabi-Gabi:   1.3 pp309-10,315-23;4
  3. Yaygir ("Yiegra"):   1.6 passim - fairly extensive; 1.8: 1196-7; 1.9 passim
  4. Yugumbir:    1.7 (not checked)
  5. Dhanggati:   1.8: 1077-84,1085-92 ...; 1.9: 1241-2, 1269-74; 4
  6. Kattang: 1.8 (do.); 1161-80; 4
  7. Karbang: 1.8 from p1108; 1153-60
  8. Anewan:  1.8: 1122-39; 1148-52; 4
  9. Wambung: 1.8 (do.) (NB: Wambung may be a section name of the informant)
  10. Ngambar:    1.8 (do.)
  11. Kamilaroi:  1.8 p1144-7; 1.10: 1399-1401, 1414
  12. Nymboida (?): 1.9 ("Richmond")
  13. Bandjalang: 1.9: 1261-2
  14. Gawal ("Richmond") 1.9: 1269-74
  15. Bulliga:    1.10: 1372-7
  16. Yuwaalaray: 1.10: 1378-98, 1412-5,1417,1420-2; 4
  17. Kugai: 1.10: 1372-7
  18. Wanjwengku: 1.10: 1406-9 (SA west of Broken Hill, check if ="Wanjiwarlku" of Hercus 1982:31)
  19. Weilwan/ Ngiyampaa ("Ngiambar"):    1.10: 1416-9
  20. Birpai: 4
SITES: Chandler's Creek to Little Nymboida Rivr: 1.9: 1326-51

Queensland languages in Laves notes
(AIAS page numbering)

  1. Initial-dropping language at Laura:  6554-63
  2. Guugu-Yimidhirr: 6541-76; 6798
  3. "Rutland-Plains Mitchell River" [3 words]:   6577, 6797 (mara hand, djina foot, dada leg) ("kuk njingpära")
  4. Olkolo:  6580-97, 6796
  5. Wik-Mungknh: 6598-6609; 6795
  6. Herberton (like Warrgamay):  6610-6615; 6794; 6652-3; 6789, 6794
  7. Innisfail (like Dyirbal): 6615-45; 6793
  8. Yidiny: 6646-7, 6792
  9. Miriam:  6648-50; 6655-73; 6791
  10. Hughenden:  6651; 6790
  11. Kaantju:   6653; 6758-6764; 6781; 6788
  12. Mari:    6654; 6787
  13. Billy Skewthorpe's language of Cloncurry+: 6674-6699; 6711-6729; 6786
  14. Kuuku-Ya?u: 6730-6737; 6785
  15. Normanton-Gilbert R ("a'tim")*: 6738-44; 6784
  16. Weipa I.S. lg: "Kuk(u) pi.umu": 6745-50; 6765-70
  17. Kuku-Yalanji:   6751-57; 6782
  18. like Uradhi:    6771-75; 6779
+ Keyboarded by Gavan Breen, identified as Mayi-Thakurti and other Mayi
* Keyboarded by Barry Alpher, March 200, as 'Athima wordlist. Jack Munsel, Gilbert River and Normanton
Laves notes, 7 pages, numbered 29 through 35.', and deposited in ASEDA.

Typed from Alpher's manuscript by David Nash, 9 Oct 1998.

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