Nyungar Anew: Phonology, Text Samples and Etymological and Historical 1500-word Vocabulary of an Artificially Re-created Aboriginal Language in the South-west of Australia

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Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1988 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 207 pages
Pre-contact alliance between coastal Shell-people and Western Desert people to form Nyungurra; western migration of other shell-people Wudjaarri, basis of new Nyungar language which metathesized non-first syllables; phonology, texts, NyungarEnglish, English- Nyungar vocabulary.

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NYUNGARENGLISH GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
145
ENGLISHNYUNGAR
151
PLANTS SCIENTIFIC NAMES
166
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