Some Bundjalung Lingo to start with!

The Bundjalung language was spoken in an area that included the north-east corner of New South Wales and the south-eastern corner of Queensland. This area stretches from Grafton on the Clarence River in the south, to the Logan River in the north and inland as far as the Great Dividing Range at Tenterfield and Warwick.

 

It includes the regional centres of Lismore, Casino, Kyogle, Woodenbong, Byron Bay, Ballina, Coolangatta-Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, the Gold Coast, Beaudesert and Warwick.

Lewis Walker is doing everything he can to rejuvenate Bundjalung Culture at Tabulam NSW

Images taken from PDF Document / An All-Dialect Dictionary of Banjalang,
An Australian Language No Longer in General Use:
Lexicography and project report by Margaret C. Sharpe

GOD - TUNKY
WIND - BORRIGAM
HEAT - WOON

FLY - TOONBURRA
 CARPET SNAKE - YUMBA
BLACK SNAKE - KOONGAI

YES - YOE
LITTLE - BIDUNG
HUNGRY - GOBBERRIE

DULUBI  - GUN, FIREARM
DUNM-A - SPLIT, OPEN UP

Dictionaries in Progress

DU:NIM-A - FLOAT

 

References:
REFERENCES

Allen, John and John Lane. 1913. "Grammar, vocabulary, and notes of the Wangerriburra Tribe." Appendix to Report of the Protector ojAboriginals. Brisbane.

Calley, Malcom. n.d. Manuscript with word lists and phrases. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Crowley, Terry. 1978. The Middle Clarence Dialects of Bandjalang. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Cunningham, M.C. 1969. A Description of the Yugumbir Dialect bj Bandjalang. University of Queensland Arts Series. Vol. 1,no. 8:69-122.

. 1976. Notes on the Bandjalang spoken at Lismore from Bill Turbull, MS.

Curr, E.M. 1886-7. The Australian Race, Volumes 1-4. Melbourne: Australian Governnlcnu Printer.

Geytenbeek, Brian and Helen Geytenbeek. 1971. Gidabal Grammar and Dictionary.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

. n.d. Word list from Ken Gordon in the Baryulgil dialect.

Hanlon, W.E. 1934. Vocabulary, Historical Society of Queensland.

Hargrave, E. 1903. "Aboriginal Dialects, Tabulm, Wauthum, Thaubin." Science, February 2 1, 1903:7-8.

. 1903. "Aboriginal Dialects, Tadeddno." Science, February 21, 1903:8.

. 1903. "Aboriginal Dialects, Copmanhurst." Science, February 21, 1903:8-9.

. 1903. "Aboriginal Dialects, Woodenbury." Science, February 21, 1903:6-7.

Holmer, Nils. 1971. Notes on the Bandjalang Dialect Spoken at Coraki and Bungawalhiiz Creek, New South Wales. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

.1983. "Manandjali in Linguistic Survey of South-Eastern Queensland." Pacific tinpristic:~

D. Vol. 54:410-437. Canberra: Australian National University.  Livingstone, Rev. 1982. "A short grammar and vocabulary of the dialect spoken by the Minyug people, on the north-east coast of New South Wales." Appendix to An Ausrralirrtl  Language. Pp. 3-27. Edited by John Fraser. Sydney: Australian Government Printc.1.

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