Wiktionary:About Nyunga

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Nyungar language

Nyunga or Noongar (Wiktionary language code nys) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the south west of Western Australia. This page is a marshalling point for some notes about including Noongar words in Wiktionary.

Notes edit

Main category: Nyunga language.
Nyunga is an Limited Documentation Language; use the {{LDL}} template at the end of all Nyunga entries: {{LDL|nys}} (it should go before the horizontal rule if there is one, with a blank line between the two).
The language heading is 'Nyunga'.
The Nyunga Wiktionary is at https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/nys

References edit

Template	Result
`{{R:nys:Grey1839}}`	1839, George Grey, Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Perth gazette and Western Australian journal)
`{{R:nys:Symmons1841}}`	1841, Charles Symmons, Grammatical introduction of the study of the Aboriginal language of Western Australia, Western Australian Almanack, Perth
`{{R:nys:Salvado1853}}`	1853, Rosendo Salvado, The Salvado Memoirs (1977 edition edited by E. J. Storman)
`{{R:nys:Moore1884}}`	1884, George Fletcher Moore, A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines in Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia, M. Walbrook, London
`{{R:nys:Taylor1886}}`	1886, Charles Taylor (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.), The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent, Number 33, John Ferres Government Printer (Melbourne)
`{{R:nys:Armstrong1886}}`	1886, C. F. Armstrong (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.), The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent
`{{R:nys:Bates1914}}`	1914, A few notes on some South-Western Australian dialects, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 44, pp. 65–82
`{{R:nys:Hassell1949}}`	1949, Ethel Hassell, 'Native Vocabulary' in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee
`{{R:nys:Hassell1975}}`	1975, Ethel Hassell, My dusky friends: Aboriginal life, customs and legends and glimpses of station life at Jarramungup in the 1880s
`{{R:nys:Douglas1968}}`	1968, Wilfrid Henry Douglas, The Aboriginal languages of the south-west of Australia: speech forms in current use and a technical description of Njunar, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (Canberra)
`{{R:nys:Whitehurst1992}}`	1992, Rose Whitehurst, Noongar Dictionary, Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Bunbury, Western Australia)
`{{R:nys:BindonChadwick2011}}`	2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.

Entries edit

Lists of mostly-formatted entries are being created on the following pages: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, & Y (there are no Z entries).

The idea is to pick these up one at a time and manually put them into their correct location (either a new page, or a new entry in an existing page), cleaning them up at the same time.

The part-of-speech needs to be replaced with one of: verb, adverb, adjective, noun, pronoun, conjunction, interjection, preposition, proper noun, article, prefix, suffix, or idiom.

The basic entry layout is as follows (but be sure to refer to the Wiktionary documentation for more details):

==Nyunga==

===Xxxx===
{{head|nys|xxxx}}

# definition here
#* Citation name
#*: Citation text

===References===
* {{R:nys:RefName}}

{{LDL|nys}}

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External links edit

Coordination page on Meta
Prototype English-to-Noongar live translation tool: http://engtonoon.byethost10.com/