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|WALSname=Gooniyandi | |WALSname=Gooniyandi | ||
|Ethn15name=Gooniyandi | |Ethn15name=Gooniyandi | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:54, 4 February 2013
| Gooniyandi | ||
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| Autoglottonym: | Gooniyandi | |
| Pronunciation: | [] | |
| Ethnologue name: | Gooniyandi | |
| OLAC name: | Gooniyandi | |
| Location point: | 18d20S 126d20E | |
| Genealogy | ||
| Family: | Australian | |
| Genus: | Bunuban | |
| Speakers | ||
| Country: | Australia | |
| Official in: | not official | |
| Speakers: | {{{Speakers}}} | |
| Writing system: | {{{WritingSyst}}} | |
| Codes | ||
| ISO 639-3: | gni | |
| MPIExt1: | GNIXXX | |
Name
The name form Gooniyandi is now preferred because this is how the language name is written in the spelling used by the speakers (McGregor 1990:18).
Alternative names are
Location
Gooniyandi is spoken near or in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia.
Speakers
In the 1980s, there were about 100 speakers (McGregor 1990:23). The language is not being passed on to children, and is hardly used by the older speakers, who prefer Fitzroy Crossing Creole (Park 2006).
Classification
References
- McGregor, William. 1990. A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Park, Kyung-An. 2006. (Personal observation)
Works on the language
- McGregor, William. 1990. A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- McGregor, William. 1992b. Clause Types in Gooniyandi. Language Sciences 14: 355-384.
- McGregor, William. 1999. Gooniyandi. In Nick Thieberger and William McGregor, eds., Macquarie Aboriginal Words: A Dictionary of Words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, pp. 193-213. New South Wales, Australia: The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.
