The Daly Languages

Murrinhpatha

also called:	Garrama, Marri-wutha, Nangu
dialects with:	Murrinh Kura
various spellings:
various spellings:	Garama, Garramung, Karama, Karaman, Mariwuda, Murinbada, Murinbata, Murinhpatha, Murinjbada, Murinjpata, Murinpatha, Murinypata, Murrinh Patha, Murrinh-patha, Murrinpatha, Murriny Patha, Nagor

Southern Daly Grouping

Murrinhpatha is spoken by 2500-3000 people in Wadeye (Port Keats) and surrounding communities. Ian Green’s corpus does not contain any Murrinhpatha recordings, however Rachel Nordlinger and a number of other researchers have available material on Murrinhpatha, and we will be adding it to this page very soon.

Murrinhpatha was not included as a Daly language in Tryon (1974), but Green (2003) shows it to belong to the Southern Daly language family.

Some useful pages containing information about Murrinhpatha and its speakers are:

Nanthak, photo R. Nordlinger

Recordings and Field Notes...

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Key Published Resources...

Barwick, Linda, Marett, Allan, Blythe, Joe & Walsh, Michael. 2007. Arriving, Digging, Performing, Returning: an exercise in rich interpretation of a djanba song text in the sound archive of the Wadeye Knowledge Centre, Northern Territory of Australia. Research in Anthropology and Linguistics: Monograph No. 7: Oceanic music encounters: The print resource and the human resource : essays in honour of Mervyn McLean, ed. b Moyle, R. M. and McLean, M., 13-24. Auckland, N.Z: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Auckland.

Blythe, Joseph. 2009. Doing referring in Murrinh-Patha conversation. Sydney: University of Sydney, MS.

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages: Murrinh-Patha. Online: http://laal.cdu.edu.au/browse/language/452010/

Mansfield, John. 2014. Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: The language and culture of Murrinh Patha youth. Canberra: ANU PhD dissertation.

Nordlinger, Rachel. 2015. Chapter 21: Inflection in Murrinhpatha. In Matthew Baerman (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Inflection. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Street, Chester. 1987. An introduction to the language and culture of the Murrinh-Patha. Darwin, Northern Territory: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch.

Walsh, Michael. 1976. The Murinypata language of North West Australia. Canberra: Australian National University PhD dissertation.

Walsh, Michael. 2011. The Murinypata Language of North-West Australia. Munich: Lincom Europa

Learning Resources...

Nambatu, Ngarul Jimmy & Marri Ngarr and Magati Ke people. 2009. Marri Ngarr and Magati Ke plants and animals : Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Moyle River and Neninh areas, North Australia. Batchelor, N.T.: Batchelor Press.

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Nambatu, Ngarul Jimmy & Marri Ngarr and Magati Ke people. 2009. Marri Ngarr and Magati Ke plants and animals : Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Moyle River and Neninh areas, North Australia. Batchelor, N.T.: Batchelor Press.