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13-638: Olinda Creek ( Woiwurrung : Gnurt-bille-worrun ) is a major tributary of the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia . Its origins are in the Dandenong Ranges , and it is notable for passing through the settlement of Lilydale (now a suburb of Melbourne ) before joining with the Yarra near Coldstream . When Europeans first entered this area of southern Australia, they moved up the valley of

26-602: A clan name, a dialect, or a closely related language. Boonwurrung is closely related to Woiwurrung, with which it shares 93% of its vocabulary, and to a lesser degree with Taungurung spoken north of the Great Dividing Range in the area of the Goulburn River , with which it shares 80%. Woiwurrung, Taungurong and Boonwurrung have been considered by linguists to be dialects of a single Central Victorian language, whose range stretched from almost Echuca in

39-590: A place in Melbourne is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Victoria (state) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Woiwurrung%E2%80%93Daungwurrung language Woiwurrung , Taungurung and Boonwurrung are Aboriginal languages of the Kulin nation of Central Victoria . Woiwurrung was spoken by the Woiwurrung and related peoples in

52-479: Is the Woiwurrung dialect: It is not clear if the two rhotics are trill and flap, or tap and approximant. Vowels in Woiwurrung are /a e i o u/. In the case of the Woiwurrung pronouns, the stem seems to be the standard ngali ' you and I ' , but the front was suffixed to wa- , so wa+ngal combines to form wangal below. In Kulin languages there is no grammatical gender. A numbering system

65-894: The Yarra River basin, Taungurung by the Taungurung people north of the Great Dividing Range in the Goulburn River Valley around Mansfield, Benalla and Heathcote, and Boonwurrung by the six clans which comprised the Boonwurrung people along the coast from the Werribee River , across the Mornington Peninsula , Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory . They are often portrayed as distinct languages, but they were mutually intelligible. Ngurai-illamwurrung (Ngurraiillam) may have been

78-516: The Olinda Creek (then called Running Creek because it was a perennial stream). The formal naming process began with the survey of Lilydale township by John Hardy in 1859–60. At the same time that he named Lilydale, Hardy renamed the creek ‘Olinda’ after Alice Olinda Hodgkinson, daughter of Deputy Surveyor-General Clement Hodgkinson . A major dam wall was built to create Silvan Reservoir in 1926. This stopped water flowing into Olinda Creek at

91-635: The grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category . In several languages, this is realized by an inflectional suffix, also known as desinence . In the example: the suffix -d inflects the root -word fade to indicate past participle. Inflectional suffixes do not change the word class of the word after the inflection. Inflectional suffixes in Modern English include: Derivational suffixes can be divided into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. In English, they include A suffix will often change

104-523: The north, to Wilsons Promontory in the south. R. Brough Smyth wrote in 1878 that "The dialects of the Wooeewoorong or Wawoorong tribe (River Yarra) and the Boonoorong tribe (Coast) are the same. Twenty-three words out of thirty are, making allowances for differences of spelling and pronunciation, identical; five have evidently the same roots, and only two are widely different". The following

117-492: The northern end of the reservoir. A second, minor dam wall at the southern end stops water flowing into Emerald Creek . Between 1988 and 1990 a dam was built on the creek just south of Lilydale, creating Lillydale Lake . The lake provides flood mitigation to areas downstream. It incorporates extensive wetlands and is a community recreation facility. 37°40′56″S 145°21′16″E  /  37.6822°S 145.3544°E  / -37.6822; 145.3544 This article about

130-406: The same language, so a sign language was used to indicate the number of days in the future when the people should assemble. The number was indicated by pointing to a location on the body from 1 to 16. After 16, at the top of the head, the count follows the equivalent locations across the other side of the body. Some Boonwurrung words for animals and plants include: Suffix Particularly in

143-445: The stress or accent pattern of a multi-syllable word, altering the phoneme pattern of the root word even if the root's morphology does not change. An example is the difference between "photograph" and "photography". In this case, the "-y" ending governs the stress pattern, causing the primary stress to shift from the first syllable ("pho-") to the antepenultimate ("-to-"). The unaccented syllables have their ordinary vowel sound changed to

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156-447: The study of Semitic languages , suffixes are called affirmatives , as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies , a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root ). A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is known as a suffixoid or a semi-suffix (e.g., English -like or German -freundlich "friendly"). Inflection changes

169-437: Was used when Wurundjeri clans sent out messengers to advise neighbouring clans of upcoming events, such as a ceremony, corroboree , a challenge to fight or Marn grook ball game. Messengers carried a message stick with markings to indicate the number and type of people involved and a prop to indicate the type of event, such as a ball for a Marn grook event. The location of meeting was spoken, but neighbouring clans might not use

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