Barngarla people

Aboriginal Languages of South Australia.[1]

The Barngarla, formerly known as Parnkalla, are an Aboriginal people of the Port Lincoln, Whyalla and Port Augusta areas. The Barngarla are the traditional owners of much of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.[2][3][4]

The Barngarla language

"In 2011 an Israeli linguist, working with Adelaide University and the chair of linguistics and endangered languages, Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, contacted the Barngarla community about helping to revive and reclaim the Barngarla language. This request was eagerly accepted by the Barngarla people and language reclamation workshops began in Port Lincoln, Whyalla and Port Augusta in 2012" (Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson, 2013).[5] The reclamation is based on 170-year-old documents.[6]

Barngarla native title

On 22 January 2015 the Barngarla people were granted native title over much of Eyre Peninsula. They had applied for 44,500 square kilometres (11,000,000 acres) and received most of it.[7][8] In Section 669 John Mansfield (judge) writes:

The fact that Barngarla language is now being relearnt by some claimants, due to the work of Adelaide University academic Ghil'ad Zuckermann, is not evidence of continuity of the Barngarla language, although it is evidence of continuity of a notion of Barngarla identity, a notion that clearly existed amongst the Barngarla community at 1846, when Barngarla people told Schürmann of the “Barngarla matta”, and which can thus be inferred to have existed at sovereignty.[9]

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  1. ↑ Tribal boundaries, after Tindale (1974), adapted from Hercus (1999).
  2. ↑ Alfred William Howitt (1904), The native tribes of south-east Australia, Macmillan and Co.
  3. ↑ James Cowles Prichard (1847), Researches into the physical history of mankind, 5 (3 ed.), Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper
  4. ↑ Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, 40, American Philosophical Society, 1901, p. 79, ISBN 9781422373521, retrieved 2009-08-28
  5. ↑ Language lost and regained / Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson, The Australian, 20 September 2013
  6. ↑ Australia’s unspeakable indigenous tragedy / Lainie Anderson, 6 May 2012
  7. ↑ FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA: Croft on behalf of the Barngarla Native Title Claim Group v State of South Australia (2015, FCA 9), File number: SAD 6011 of 1998; John Mansfield (judge)
  8. ↑ Barngarla people granted partial native title over large area of SA Eyre Peninsula, ABC News, By Nicola Gage and Natalie Whiting, 28 January 2015
  9. ↑ See also Section 282 in FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA: Croft on behalf of the Barngarla Native Title Claim Group v State of South Australia (2015, FCA 9), File number: SAD 6011 of 1998; John Mansfield (judge).

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