Update to 1989 summary

Documentation of Western Desert languages

• Documented varieties of WD

Ethnologue: Australian,        Thieberger 1993                           
Pama-Nyungan, South-West,                                                
Wati                                                                     
ANTAKARINYA                                                              
KOKATA                                                                   
KUKATJA                        4.6.2 Kukatja                             
MARTU WANGKA                   4.6.1 Kartujarra, 4.6.3 Manjiljarra       
NGAANYATJARRA                  4.6.4 Ngaatjatjarra, 4.6.5 Ngaanyatjarra  
NIJADALI                       4.5.6 Nyiyaparli                          
PINI                                                                     
PINTIINI                       4.6.9 Wanggatha/Wangkatja                 
PINTUPI-LURITJA                4.6.7 Pintupi                             
PITJANTJATJARA                 4.6.8 Pitjantjatjara                      
WANMAN                         4.6.11 Warnman                            
WIRANGU                                                                  
YANKUNTATJARA                                                            
                               4.5.7 Palyku                              
                               4.6.6 Ngala(-wangka)                      
                               4.6.10 Wangkajunga                        
                               4.6.12 Yulparija

• Thieberger, Nick. 1993. Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages south of the Kimberley region. Pacific Linguistics C-124. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. vii+408pp. ; maps ; 25 cm.  * HTML version: 4.6 The Western Desert
• McGregor, William. 1988. Handbook of Kimberley languages. Pacific Linguistics C-105. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Dept. of Linguistics. v. 1. General information. A project of the Kimberley Language Resource Centre.
• McGregor, William. 1992. Handbook of Kimberley Languages. Volume 2: Word Lists. First Draft. December 1992. Submitted to Pacific Linguistics.
  8.5 Yulparija / Yurlparija / Julbaridja
  8.6 Wangkajunga / Wangkatjungka
  8.7 Kukatja / Gugadja
  8.8 Pintupi / Bindubi

checklist of source materials: lexical and grammatical

Update to Western Desert lexicography: A mid-1989 status report .

1. Machine-readable vocabularies

Ngaanyatjarra Word List     Amee Glass                     May 1988
Wangkatja                   Noel Blyth                      1988
Yulparija                   Ken McKelson & Diana           February 1989
                            MacCallum
Martu Wangka                Jim Marsh                       1992
Pintupi/Luritja             Ken & Lesley Hansen             1992
Pitj/Yank                   Cliff Goddard (incl Eckert)     1992
Kukatja                     Hilaire Valiquette (incl Peile) 1993

2. Machine-readable compilations

WA mammal names database, received 24/10/1990 from Burbidge.
Burbidge, Andrew A., K.A. Johnson, Phillip J. Fuller and R.I. Southgate. 1988. Aboriginal knowledge of the mammals of the central deserts of Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 15,9-39.
01 Pitjantjatjarra
02 Ngaatjatjarra
03 Ngaanyatjarra
04 Pintupi
06 Kukatja
07 Luritja
08 Manytjilytjarra
09 Kartutjarra
11 Warnman
13 Putitjarra
16 Yulparrja
24 Wangkatjungka

Valiquette, Hilaire (ed.). 1993. A Basic Kukatja to English Dictionary. ISBN 0646124536  iv+4362pp. Balgo: Luurnpa Catholic School. * based on A.R. Peile's work

Blyth, J. Noel. 2001. Wangka Base Dictionary. 2nd edition, 2000. ISBN 0-9578596-0-0 Revised February 2001. Gibson, WA: The author.

Glass, Amee and Dorothy Hackett (compilers). 2003. Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra to English Dictionary. Alice Springs: IAD Press.

3. Not machine-readable

Murtonen, Aimo Edvard. 1969. Pintupi, statistical and comparative survey of an Australian Western Desert language. Melb. * AIATSIS Library  B M984.87/o1 * includes vocabulary recorded by the author at Papunya

Hansen, K.C. 1984. Communicability of some Western Desert communilects, pp.1-112 in Language Survey, ed. by J. Hudson & N. Pym. Work Papers of SIL-AAB Series B Volume 11. June 1984. xi+167pp. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics Australian Aborigines Branch. ISBN 0 86892 312 5

Wangatha Dictionary. October 2002.  Kalgoorlie: Wangkanyi Ngurra Tjurta. 112pp.