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John Atkinson wrote:
> 
> "Ananke" <FarrallNO@SPAMdingoblue.net.au> wrote
> >
> > It just got worse ;-)  How about words for 'blue' or 'sky'?  He is blue,
> > afterall.  This is the page I was using to refer to areas and histories...
> > http://www.dnathan.com/VL/byLang.htm  Can't find much Warrung stuff at all
> :-(
> 
> Just about all that's been recorded is collected by Barry Blake in
> "Woiwurrung, the Melbourne language" in vol 4 of "The Handbook of Australian
> Languages", ed RMW Dixon and Blake, Oxford, 1991.
> 
> For other extinct and near extinct Victorian languages, a good reference is
> Louise Hercus "Victorian Languages, a Late Survey" (Canberra: Pacific
> Linguistics, 1986; earlier edition, Australian Institute of Aboriginal
> studies, 1969)
> 
> As you know, Woiwurrung divides into two dialects (among others), Woiwurrung
> ("the Melbourne Language") and Thagungwurrung ("the Goulburn River
> Language), the division apparently lying along the Great Dividing Range.
> 
> Here's some words from Blake:
> 
> black, blue:  wurrgurdin (W only), wurrga(rra)bil (both W and T)
> green: wurrwarrin (W), wunwarren (W)
> (all these look like they could be variants of the same term)
> 
> water: baany (ny = palatal nasal) (W,T)
> waterhole: "tam-boore" (W) (phonemization unclear)
> sky: wurru-wurru (W,T)
> 
> No word seems to have been recorded for "river"

Very interesting.  Thank you.  For some bizarre reason all the
literature I have collected stops at the Murray.

Off for another search!

Mark.

> 
> John.

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