OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C46F-3

Metadata
Title:		Marrku text about travel on cargo boats between Cape Don and Yirrkala
		MAR_w_660618
		Yiwarrunj, yinyman, radbiyi lda mali: Iwaidja and Other Endangered Languages of the Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) in their Cultural Context
Contributor:		Bernhard (Bernie) Schebeck
Contributor (consultant):		Alf Brown
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		1966-06-18
Description:		Marrku text about travel between Cape Don and Yirrkala, rec. by Bernard Schebeck on Goulburn Island, prob. from Alf Brown though speaker id. not yet definite. Original recording is in the AIATSIS archive, Archive Tape A645, Track B; Field Tape MA6. Content listed in Schebeck metadata as 'various trips in Cargo boats', 'a trip to Arnhem Bay', '2 killers', and 'the Marrgu - country'. Rough transcription of first part in transcriber. [Media file still needs chasing up among AIATSIS CDs]
		This project documents, in as full a cultural context as is possible, the Iwaidja language of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia (Iwaidjan language family, non-Pama-Nyungan), still spoken by around 200 people but under increasing threat from English, as well as recording material from other languages of the region (Marrgu, Ilgar/ Garig, Amurdak and Manangkari) which are all reduced to one or two speakers each. In addition to linguists, the research team will include specialists in ethnomusicology, material culture / archaeology, and social anthropology, and will result in a comprehensive, searchable and browsable sound and video documentation, with Iwaidja transcriptions and subtitles alongside English translations, an Iwaidja dictionary of around 5,000 words, detailed phonetic analysis, and briefer materials on other languages of the area.
		Alf Brown Inyjarurri was a member of the Nganyjaharr clan whose traditional estate encompasses the country around Kulkul (Danger Point) on the northern coast of Cobourg Peninsula. His European name stemmed from his close working association with a man of European descent called Alf Brown (1), who lived and worked in the area for four decades until World War II. Inyjarurri’s skin group was Nawurlany and he was of the Yarriwurrik (kujali ‘fire’) phratry. One of five children, he spoke Garig like his father Wajirr, and Marrku, the language of his mother, Gurnigurni. Inyjarurri had two daughters from three marriages (2) , Mary Yugal (deceased), from Lily Malyurrgi, and Maureen Brown (also known as Mindayal and Munamuna), who is still alive, from Audrey Wunganumala. Although the precise dates of Inyjarurri’s birth and death are unknown, it is likely he was born in the last years of the nineteenth century and died in the 1970s. It was Inyjarurri who taught the Marrku language to Khaki Marrala, a co-author of this publication, who is now one of the last people alive with some knowledge of the language. (1) Alfred Joseph Voules Brown (1868-1955) arrived on the Cobourg Peninsula in 1899. He was appointed as the last customs officer at Bowen Strait, whose task it was to collect duties from Macassan trepangers. He soon started his own trepang operations at Bowen Strait, Port Essington and later Blue Mud Bay. Known locally as ‘The Commandant’, he employed local people in his enterprises and became an integral part of their everyday lives. Around 1909, he married Mumulaj, the daughter of a Macassan man and an Iwaidja woman. They had two daughters, Mujerambi and Mulwagug born in 1910 and 1911 respectively. (2) Two of Alf Brown’s wives were sisters, Lily Malyurrgi and Daisy Injarraldaj (also known as Magulagi) of the Majunbalmi clan. His third marriage was to Audrey Wungarumala of the Danek clan.
Format:		text/x-trs
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C46F-3
		IW
Publisher:		Nicholas Evans
		University of Melbourne
Subject:		Unspecified
		Margu language
		Marrku
Subject (ISO639):		mhg
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C46F-3
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Bernhard (Bernie) Schebeck; Alf Brown (consultant). 1966-06-18. Nicholas Evans.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_AU iso639_mhg
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Australia
Area:		Pacific