Dalabon language
| Dalabon | |
|---|---|
| Ngalkbun | |
| Region | Arnhem Land, Australia |
Native speakers | 15 (2006 census)[1] |
|
Arnhem
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ngk |
| Glottolog |
ngal1292[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
N60 |
Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by some 20 speakers in Arnhem Land, Australia. Dalabon is also known as Dangbon, Ngalkbun (the Jawoyn name), and Buwan (the Rembarrnga name).[1]
References
- Alpher, Barry. 1982. Dalabon dual-subject prefixes, kinship categories and generation skewing. In J. Heath, F. Merlan and A. Rumsey, eds, Languages of Kinship in Aboriginal Australia, 19-30. Sydney: Oceania Linguistic Monographs #24,
- Evans, Nicholas, Dunstan Brown & Greville Corbett. 2001. Dalabon pronominal prefixes and the typology of syncretism: a Network Morphology analysis. Yearbook of Morphology 2000, 187-231.
- Evans, Nicholas. 2007. Standing up your mind: remembering in Dalabon. In Mengistu Amberber (ed.) The language of memory in a crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 67–95.
- Evans, Nicholas. 2006. Who said polysynthetic languages avoid subordination? Multiple subordination strategies in Dalabon. Australian Journal of Linguistics 26.1:31-58.
- Evans, Nicholas, Janet Fletcher & Belinda Ross. 2008. Big words, small phrases: mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon. Linguistics 46.1:87-127.
- Evans, Nicholas & Francesca Merlan. 2003. Dalabon verb conjugations. In Nicholas Evans (ed.). The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 269–283.
- Evans, Nicholas, Francesca Merlan & Maggie Tukumba. 2004. A first dictionary of Dalabon (Ngalkbon). Maningrida: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation. Pp. xxxviii + 489.
- Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2012. Body-parts in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol: Matches and mismatches. In M. Ponsonnet, L. Dao and M. Bowler eds. Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference – 2011 (Canberra, 1–4 Dec 2011), 351–387. Canberra: ANU Research Repository.
- (French) Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2011. Les figures du doute en langue dalabon (Australie du Nord). Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 132(1):151–164. Paris: Société des Océanistes.
- Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2010. Aspects of the Semantics of Emotions and Feelings in Dalabon (South-Western Arnhem Land). The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 20(3):367-89. Malden / Oxford / Chichester / Richmond: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2009. Aspects of the Semantics of Intellectual Subjectivity in Dalabon (South-Western Arnhem Land). Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009/1:17-28. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dalabon at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngalkbun". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.