Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Kaurna language

Index Kaurna language

Kaurna is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. [1]

98 relations: Abessive case, Ablative case, Absolutive case, Adelaide Plains, Adnyamathanha language, Aldinga, South Australia, Alitya Rigney, Allative case, Alveolar consonant, Anglicisation, Apical consonant, Approximant consonant, Aversive case, Back vowel, Cambridge University Press, Cape Jervis (headland), Clare, South Australia, Close vowel, Comitative case, Cowandilla, South Australia, Crystal Brook, South Australia, Dative case, Dental consonant, Dialect, Dreamtime, E-book, Encounter Bay, Ergative case, Ethnography, Eucalyptus ovata, Exonym and endonym, Extinct language, First language, Flap consonant, Front vowel, Genitive case, George Taplin, Glenelg, South Australia, Glenunga, South Australia, Hundred of Kondoparinga, Hybrid word, Instrumental case, Kangarilla, South Australia, Kaurna, Labial consonant, Laminal consonant, Language death, Lateral consonant, Locative case, Luise Hercus, ..., Mount Lofty Ranges, Myponga, South Australia, Narangga language, Nasal consonant, Ngadjuri language, Ngarrindjeri, Noarlunga, Norman Tindale, North Terrace, Adelaide, Nukunu language, Onkaparinga River, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Pama–Nyungan languages, Paracombe, South Australia, Parracombe, Patawalonga River, Peripheral, Peripheral consonant, Perlative case, Piccadilly, Piccadilly, South Australia, Port Adelaide, Possessive, Pre-stopped consonant, Ramindjeri, Rapid Bay, South Australia, Raukkan, South Australia, Retroflex consonant, Robert M. W. Dixon, Scots language, Semblative case, South Australia, Stop consonant, Temporal case, Thura-Yura languages, Trill consonant, University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, Uraidla, South Australia, Velar consonant, Victoria Square, Adelaide, Waitpinga, South Australia, Warriparinga, William Wyatt, Willunga, South Australia, Yankalilla, South Australia, Yatala. Expand index (48 more) »

Abessive case

In linguistics, abessive (abbreviated or), caritive and privative (abbreviated) is the grammatical case expressing the lack or absence of the marked noun.

New!!: Kaurna language and Abessive case · See more »

Ablative case

The ablative case (sometimes abbreviated) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns and adjectives in the grammar of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses.

New!!: Kaurna language and Ablative case · See more »

Absolutive case

The absolutive case (abbreviated) is the unmarked grammatical case of a core argument of a verb (generally other than the nominative) that is used as the citation form of a noun.

New!!: Kaurna language and Absolutive case · See more »

Adelaide Plains

The Adelaide Plains (Kaurna name Tarndanya) is a plain in South Australia lying between the coast (Gulf St Vincent) on the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges on the east.

New!!: Kaurna language and Adelaide Plains · See more »

Adnyamathanha language

Adnyamathanha (pronounced; many other names, see below) or yura ngarwala is an Australian Aboriginal language.

New!!: Kaurna language and Adnyamathanha language · See more »

Aldinga, South Australia

Aldinga is a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia located about south of the Adelaide city centre in the City of Onkaparinga.

New!!: Kaurna language and Aldinga, South Australia · See more »

Alitya Rigney

Alitya (Alice Dorothy) Wallara Rigney (27 November 1942 – 13 May 2017) was an Australian Aboriginal scholar.

New!!: Kaurna language and Alitya Rigney · See more »

Allative case

Allative case (abbreviated; from Latin allāt-, afferre "to bring to") is a type of locative case.

New!!: Kaurna language and Allative case · See more »

Alveolar consonant

Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.

New!!: Kaurna language and Alveolar consonant · See more »

Anglicisation

Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.

New!!: Kaurna language and Anglicisation · See more »

Apical consonant

An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.

New!!: Kaurna language and Apical consonant · See more »

Approximant consonant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

New!!: Kaurna language and Approximant consonant · See more »

Aversive case

The aversive or evitative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case found in Australian Aboriginal languages that indicates that the marked noun is avoided or feared.

New!!: Kaurna language and Aversive case · See more »

Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Back vowel · See more »

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

New!!: Kaurna language and Cambridge University Press · See more »

Cape Jervis (headland)

Cape Jervis is a headland located at the most westerly part of the Fleurieu Peninsula on the east coast of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia about west of the town of the same name, Cape Jervis.

New!!: Kaurna language and Cape Jervis (headland) · See more »

Clare, South Australia

The town of Clare (postcode 5453) is located in South Australia in the Mid North region, 136 km north of Adelaide.

New!!: Kaurna language and Clare, South Australia · See more »

Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in American terminology), is any in a class of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Close vowel · See more »

Comitative case

The comitative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment.

New!!: Kaurna language and Comitative case · See more »

Cowandilla, South Australia

Cowandilla is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the City of West Torrens.

New!!: Kaurna language and Cowandilla, South Australia · See more »

Crystal Brook, South Australia

Crystal Brook is a town in South Australia, named after the spring-fed creek next to which it was founded.

New!!: Kaurna language and Crystal Brook, South Australia · See more »

Dative case

The dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate, among other uses, the noun to which something is given, as in "Maria Jacobī potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

New!!: Kaurna language and Dative case · See more »

Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,,, and in some languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Dental consonant · See more »

Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

New!!: Kaurna language and Dialect · See more »

Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

New!!: Kaurna language and Dreamtime · See more »

E-book

An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

New!!: Kaurna language and E-book · See more »

Encounter Bay

Encounter Bay is a bay on the south central coast of South Australia about south of the Adelaide city centre.

New!!: Kaurna language and Encounter Bay · See more »

Ergative case

The ergative case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that identifies the noun as a subject of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Ergative case · See more »

Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

New!!: Kaurna language and Ethnography · See more »

Eucalyptus ovata

Eucalyptus ovata, commonly known as Swamp Gum or Black Gum, is a widespread occurring Australian eucalypt.

New!!: Kaurna language and Eucalyptus ovata · See more »

Exonym and endonym

An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, or a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect.

New!!: Kaurna language and Exonym and endonym · See more »

Extinct language

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants.

New!!: Kaurna language and Extinct language · See more »

First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

New!!: Kaurna language and First language · See more »

Flap consonant

In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.

New!!: Kaurna language and Flap consonant · See more »

Front vowel

A front vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth without creating a constriction that would make it a consonant.

New!!: Kaurna language and Front vowel · See more »

Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive (abbreviated); also called the second case, is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun.

New!!: Kaurna language and Genitive case · See more »

George Taplin

Rev.

New!!: Kaurna language and George Taplin · See more »

Glenelg, South Australia

Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

New!!: Kaurna language and Glenelg, South Australia · See more »

Glenunga, South Australia

Glenunga is an inner southeastern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Glenunga, South Australia · See more »

Hundred of Kondoparinga

The Hundred of Kondoparinga is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Hundred of Kondoparinga · See more »

Hybrid word

A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Hybrid word · See more »

Instrumental case

The instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.

New!!: Kaurna language and Instrumental case · See more »

Kangarilla, South Australia

Kangarilla is a town near Adelaide, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Kangarilla, South Australia · See more »

Kaurna

The Kaurna people are a group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands include the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Kaurna · See more »

Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

New!!: Kaurna language and Labial consonant · See more »

Laminal consonant

A laminal consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue on the top.

New!!: Kaurna language and Laminal consonant · See more »

Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

New!!: Kaurna language and Language death · See more »

Lateral consonant

A lateral is an l-like consonant in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

New!!: Kaurna language and Lateral consonant · See more »

Locative case

Locative (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which indicates a location.

New!!: Kaurna language and Locative case · See more »

Luise Hercus

Luise Anna Hercus,, (16 January 1926 – 15 April 2018) was a German-born linguist who lived in Australia since 1954.

New!!: Kaurna language and Luise Hercus · See more »

Mount Lofty Ranges

The Mount Lofty Ranges are the range of mountains just to the east of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Mount Lofty Ranges · See more »

Myponga, South Australia

Myponga is a settlement in South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Myponga, South Australia · See more »

Narangga language

Narangga (also Narungga) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken by the Narungga people in Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Narangga language · See more »

Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

New!!: Kaurna language and Nasal consonant · See more »

Ngadjuri language

Ngadjuri is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken by the Ngadjuri people of South Australia, whose homelands covered roughly 11,500 sq.

New!!: Kaurna language and Ngadjuri language · See more »

Ngarrindjeri

The term Ngarrindjeri means belonging to men, and refers to a "tribal constellation".

New!!: Kaurna language and Ngarrindjeri · See more »

Noarlunga

Noarlunga is a South Australian place name which refer to several entities at the same approximate location.

New!!: Kaurna language and Noarlunga · See more »

Norman Tindale

Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

New!!: Kaurna language and Norman Tindale · See more »

North Terrace, Adelaide

North Terrace is one of the four terraces that bound the central business and residential district of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and North Terrace, Adelaide · See more »

Nukunu language

Nukunu (or Nugunu; many other names: see below) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language spoken by Nukunu people on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Nukunu language · See more »

Onkaparinga River

The Onkaparinga River, known as Ngangkiparri in the Kaurna language, is a river located in the Southern Adelaide region in the Australian state of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Onkaparinga River · See more »

Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

New!!: Kaurna language and Open vowel · See more »

Palatal consonant

Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

New!!: Kaurna language and Palatal consonant · See more »

Pama–Nyungan languages

The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of indigenous Australian languages, containing perhaps 300 languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Pama–Nyungan languages · See more »

Paracombe, South Australia

Paracombe is a small town near Adelaide, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Paracombe, South Australia · See more »

Parracombe

Parracombe is a rural settlement near Lynton, in Devon, England.

New!!: Kaurna language and Parracombe · See more »

Patawalonga River

The Patawalonga River is a river located in the western suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area, in the Australian state of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Patawalonga River · See more »

Peripheral

A peripheral device is "an ancillary device used to put information into and get information out of the computer." Three categories of peripheral devices exist based on their relationship with the computer.

New!!: Kaurna language and Peripheral · See more »

Peripheral consonant

In Australian linguistics, the peripheral consonants are a natural class encompassing consonants articulated at the extremes of the mouth: labials and velars.

New!!: Kaurna language and Peripheral consonant · See more »

Perlative case

The perlative case (abbreviated) "expresses that something moved 'through', 'across', or 'along' the referent of the noun that is marked." The case is found in a number of Australian Aboriginal languages such as Kuku-Yalanji as well as in Aymara, Inuktitut, and the extinct Tocharian languages.

New!!: Kaurna language and Perlative case · See more »

Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a road in the City of Westminster, London to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east.

New!!: Kaurna language and Piccadilly · See more »

Piccadilly, South Australia

Piccadilly is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Piccadilly, South Australia · See more »

Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD.

New!!: Kaurna language and Port Adelaide · See more »

Possessive

A possessive form (abbreviated) is a word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense.

New!!: Kaurna language and Possessive · See more »

Pre-stopped consonant

In linguistics, pre-stopping, also known as pre-occlusion or pre-plosion, is a phonological process involving the historical or allophonic insertion of a very short stop consonant before a sonorant, such as a short before a nasal or a lateral.

New!!: Kaurna language and Pre-stopped consonant · See more »

Ramindjeri

Ramindjeri were an indigenous Australian people forming part of the Kukabrak grouping now otherwise known as the Ngarrindjeri) people. They were the most westerly Ngarrindjeri, living in the area around Encounter Bay and Goolwa in southern South Australia, including Victor Harbor and Port Elliot. In modern native title actions a much more extensive territory has been claimed.

New!!: Kaurna language and Ramindjeri · See more »

Rapid Bay, South Australia

Rapid Bay is the name of both a locality (postcode 5204) including a small seaside town and a small bay on the west coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Rapid Bay, South Australia · See more »

Raukkan, South Australia

Raukkan is a small Australian Aboriginal community situated on the south-eastern shore of Lake Alexandrina in the locality of Narrung, eighty kilometres southeast of the centre of South Australia's capital, Adelaide.

New!!: Kaurna language and Raukkan, South Australia · See more »

Retroflex consonant

A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

New!!: Kaurna language and Retroflex consonant · See more »

Robert M. W. Dixon

Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon (Gloucester, England, 25 January 1939) is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland.

New!!: Kaurna language and Robert M. W. Dixon · See more »

Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).

New!!: Kaurna language and Scots language · See more »

Semblative case

The semblative case is a grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another.

New!!: Kaurna language and Semblative case · See more »

South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and South Australia · See more »

Stop consonant

In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

New!!: Kaurna language and Stop consonant · See more »

Temporal case

The temporal case (abbreviated) in morphology is used to indicate a time.

New!!: Kaurna language and Temporal case · See more »

Thura-Yura languages

The Yura or Thura-Yura languages are a group of Australian Aboriginal languages surrounding Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent in South Australia, that comprise a genetic language family of the Pama–Nyungan family.

New!!: Kaurna language and Thura-Yura languages · See more »

Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

New!!: Kaurna language and Trill consonant · See more »

University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and University of Adelaide · See more »

University of South Australia

The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and University of South Australia · See more »

Uraidla, South Australia

Uraidla is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Uraidla, South Australia · See more »

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).

New!!: Kaurna language and Velar consonant · See more »

Victoria Square, Adelaide

Victoria Square, also known as Tarntanyangga or Tarndanyangga, is a public square in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

New!!: Kaurna language and Victoria Square, Adelaide · See more »

Waitpinga, South Australia

Waitpinga is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south of the state capital of Adelaide and about southwest of the municipal seat of Victor Harbor.

New!!: Kaurna language and Waitpinga, South Australia · See more »

Warriparinga

Warriparinga (meaning Windy Place in the local Kaurna language) is a nature reserve comprising in the metropolitan suburb of Bedford Park, in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and Warriparinga · See more »

William Wyatt

William Wyatt (1804 – 10 June 1886) was a pioneer settler and philanthropist in South Australia.

New!!: Kaurna language and William Wyatt · See more »

Willunga, South Australia

Willunga is a town south of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Onkaparinga local government area 47 km from the Adelaide city centre.

New!!: Kaurna language and Willunga, South Australia · See more »

Yankalilla, South Australia

Yankalilla is an agriculturally based town situated on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, located 72 km south of the state's capital of Adelaide.

New!!: Kaurna language and Yankalilla, South Australia · See more »

Yatala

Yatala may refer to any of the following items.

New!!: Kaurna language and Yatala · See more »

Redirects here:

ISO 639:zku.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaurna_language

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »