Title A Dictionary of Umpithamu : With notes on Middle Paman

Published Acton, Australian Capital Territory : Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP), 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- List of tables -- Table 1: Basic structure of the sentence -- Table 2: Pronoun forms -- Table 3: Nominal forms -- Table 4: Basic structure of the nominal group -- Table 5: Verb forms -- Table 6: Consonants -- Table 7: Vowels -- Table 8: Middle Paman sources -- Table 9: Other Paman sources -- List of figures Figure 1: Ngaakamburu (old Harry Liddy) carrying a turtle (ikarranthi). Lamalama, Stewart River, Cape York Peninsula, 1928. Photographer D.F. Thomson. The Donald Thomson Ethnohistory Collection. Reproduced courtesy of the Thomson family and Museums Victo -- Figure 2: Noongorrli (Harry Liddy) drinks from a bailer shell (yaangkun). Lamalama, Stewart River, Cape York Peninsula, 1928. Photographer D.F. Thomson. The Donald Thomson Ethnohistory Collection. Reproduced courtesy of the Thomson family and Museums Vic Figure 3: Noongorrli (Harry Liddy) holding a harpoon (thaapimu), Mungi sitting on a dugong (utyarra). Lamalama, Stewart River, Cape York Peninsula, 1928. Photographer D.F. Thomson. The Donald Thomson Ethnohistory Collection. Reproduced courtesy of the Th -- Figure 4: Florrie Bassani cooking aangkayi crabs at Aantharrapa. Photographer J-C Verstraete. -- Figure 5: Florrie Bassani and Elaine Liddy at Waymuwa. Photographer J-C Verstraete. -- Figure 6: Florrie Bassani (holding yathil 'grindstone') and Joan Liddy (holding child) at Rirrmerr. Photographer K Blackman Figure 7: Keith Liddy at Ngutyipa, next to the Professor Bruce Rigsby Building. Photographer E Liddy. -- Figure 8: Karen Liddy, Seppi Bassani and Alison Liddy, outside the building that now houses the Coen office of the Yintjingga Aboriginal Corporation. Photographer J-C Verstraete. -- Figure 9: Lamalama country -- Figure 10: The genetic status of Umpithamu Figure 11: Nellie and Bambi building a dry season bark house. Lamalama, Stewart River, East Cape York Peninsula, 1928. Photographer D.F. Thomson. The Donald Thomson Ethnohistory Collection. Reproduced courtesy of the Thomson family and Museums Victoria. -- Figure 12: Old Chako with child. Lamalama, Stewart River, East Cape York Peninsula 1928. Photographer D.F. Thomson. The Donald Thomson Ethnohistory Collection. Reproduced courtesy of the Thomson family and Museums Victoria Summary Umpithamu is a language of the Princess Charlotte Bay region on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, in north-eastern Australia. A Dictionary of Umpithamu, with notes on Middle Paman is the first comprehensive dictionary of a Cape York language to be published in over two decades. The dictionary provides detailed information about the grammar, meaning and use of Umpithamu words, generously illustrated with example sentences. All information can also be accessed through an index of English translations, organised alphabetically and thematically. For users with more specific interests, like linguists, anthropologists and biologists, the dictionary further offers phonetic transcriptions, cognates and (Middle) Paman reconstructions for most words, as well as ethnographic notes and identifications of plant and animal species Analysis Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Text in Umpithamu and English Subject Australian languages -- Dictionaries Umpithamu language Y50 Language -- Vocabulary -- Dictionaries and glossaries Australian languages Genre/Form Electronic books dictionaries. Dictionaries Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. Form Electronic book Author Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. ISBN 9781925302219 1925302210 9781925302226 1925302229 9781925302288 1925302288

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