Jingili, Ngarnga, Warumungu back to Australian languages
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None of my work on these languages is published.
During my fieldwork period in the early-mid 1970’s I made brief trips down the main highway going south from Darwin, to Tennant Creek for Warumungu and to Elliott for Jingili and Ngarnga. These are all Pama-Nyungan languages. I mainly collected flora-fauna vocabulary while in Elliott.
For Jingili, see the extensive work on “Djingili” by Neil Chadwick and on “Jingulu” by Robert Pensalfini. Ngarnga is currently classified along with Binbinka as dialects of “Gudanji.” Gudanji is closely related to Wambaya, which is the subject of a grammar by Rachel Nordlinger. Jingili and Gudanji are part of the Mindi (or Mindi). Chadwick and more recently Mark Harvey have written about the relationships among languages of this group.
For Warumungu, I tried to get the basics of the grammar and a little vocabulary and textual material while in Tennant Creek. Some of this was worked up for archiving by Jane Simpson.
Manuscripts on Warumungu authored or co-authored by me are archived at AIATSIS are labeled “Preliminary vocabulary of Warumungu” (Simpson & Heath, available online, call no. AILEC 0055), “Warumungu sketch grammar: draft 4” (Simpson & Heath, call no. MS 1860), “Warramunga grammatical notes” (Heath, call no. PMS 3804), and “Warramunga texts” (Heath, call no. PMS 3802).
Several substantial works on Warumungu have been written by David Nash and by Jane Simpson.
See the AIATSIS catalog for references on these publications and archived manuscripts:
http://aiatsis.gov.au
[last update Nov 2017]