The Dagoman was a group of Indigenous Australians living in the Northern Territory of Australia .
17-412: The Dagoman language was one of the non- Pama–Nyungan languages , closely related to its congeners , Wardaman and Yangman . All three may be considered to be dialects of the one language isolate. The language is extinct, the last known speaker being Mrs Martha Hart of Pine Creek , who died in 1982. There is a considerable overlap of vocabulary and typological features with Wakiman . Tindale mapped
34-551: A family, these are called Yangmanic . Though previously classified as Gunwinyguan , the Yangmanic languages have not been demonstrated to be related to other languages. The isolate Wagiman shares a very similar morphosyntactic profile with the Yangmanic languages, although they share very low cognacy rates (about 10% according to Stephen Wilson ). Francesca Merlan supports its grouping together with Yangmanic, citing that both together differ from neighbouring languages (such as
51-474: A following /u/ or /o/). The r is post-alveolar. Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Wadaman (Wardaman): Arthur Capell Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist , who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages , Austronesian languages and Papuan languages . Capell was born in Newtown, New South Wales in 1902,
68-541: A lectureship in linguistics for him in 1945. He was appointed reader in 1948, and remained in that position until retirement in 1967. He was made an honorary canon of Ss Peter and Paul Cathedral, Dogura in 1956. Notwithstanding his extensive work on Papuan and Polynesian languages, including dictionaries of Fijian , Palauan and Western Futuna , Capell managed to make important contributions to Australian linguistics, particularly in discovering typologically distinct north-western languages which could not be assimilated to
85-627: Is said to have regarded his research of aboriginal languages to be a matter of weekend work, though he did spend lengthy periods doing fieldwork in both the Kimberleys and Arnhem Land . When Elkin, then the Anglican rector at Morpeth , was appointed to a professorship in anthropology at Sydney, Capell served as his locum tenens in the parish. On vacations back in Morpeth, Elkin was impressed by Capell's linguistic gifts, and eventually arranged
102-699: The Dagoman's general area as running northeast of the middle Daly River and south to the junction of the Flora and Katherine rivers and at at Jindare, and estimated their territory as encompassing some 1,600 sq. m. (4,200 sq. km.). Their country lay to the north of that of the Wardaman people , while its borders with those of the Jawoyn were at Kumbidgee by the water-hole of the rock bat ( Wallan , in Jawoyn legend), along
119-550: The Gulf of Carpentaria.- The key site of the northwest extremity was a place called Bamboo Creek on the Ferguson River where the supplies of bamboo spear shafts were obtained. This was quite definitely Tagoman property and their rights probably did extend somewhat beyond this point as Tindale indicates. Also Edith for axe heads. The key site at the southeast end of the territory was Leach Lagoon which drains into Roper Creek. This
136-478: The Gunwinyguan language Jawoyn and Mangarrayi ) while sharing very similar syntax with each other, such as their similar use of ' verbal particles '. The phonological inventory of Wardaman proper: The alveolo-palatals are pronounced with the blade of the tongue; at the end of a syllable they may sound like yn and yl to an English ear. Even the y is said to have lateral spread and to be pronounced with
153-689: The Previous Existence, Industry, Mythology and Rock Art of the Tagoman in the Katherine District, Northern territory". Three varieties of indigenous Sorghum seed were gathered as foodstuffs by the Dagoman, Sorghum plumosum, Sorghum intrans and Sorghum macrospermum . Dagoman language Wardaman is an Australian Aboriginal language isolate . It is one of the northern non-Pama–Nyungan languages. Dagoman and Yangman were either dialects or closely related languages; as
170-641: The University of Sydney (1931). Encouraged by Elkin, he undertook a doctoral programme at the University of London in 1935, and graduating the following year with a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies , with a thesis on The linguistic position of south-eastern Papua , which was published in book form in 1943. His primary interest was the languages of the Pacific and of New Guinea, and he
187-459: The blade and body of the tongue. There is very little acoustic difference between the two apical series compared to other languages in the area. The alveolars may add a slight retroflex onglide to a following vowel, and the retroflexes may assimilate alveolars in the same word. Nonetheless, they remain phonemically distinct. Francesca describes the w as bilabial, and notes that there is little or no lip rounding or protrusion (except in assimilation to
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#1732783672086204-539: The old north-south road running from Maranboy to Katherine . According to Nolgoyma, an elderly headman, one of the remnant of Dagoman survivors, their land's extent was as follows: The long axis stretch(es) from the Ferguson River and the lower King across the valley of the lower Edith and Katherine ( sic ) river to the headwaters of the Roper River. It straddles the watershed between the Indian Ocean and
221-592: The only child of Sarah Ann (née Scott) and her husband, Henry Capell. He attended North Sydney Boys' High School . Capell graduated from the Sydney Teachers' College in Modern Languages in 1922 and the University of Sydney in the same year as the University medallist in Classics. He taught in high schools for three years at Canterbury Boys' Intermediate High and Tamworth High School . He
238-537: The standard Pama-Nyungan language family. Capell was fond of punning, an example being his pronunciation of semantics as "some antics". When his housekeeper fell ill, he hired another to care for her and, when the second in turn fell ill, Capell looked after both of them. He died in 1986, aged 84. He was unmarried. The University of Sydney awards an annual prize in Capell's name for an essay on Australian and Pacific Linguistics. The Australian Museum holds
255-854: Was the Turtle Dreaming place and the source of pipey (?) timber for didgeridoos... The waterholes at Oluydune Dyrinyan and Wongalla (Wangala) on the King River were also in Tagoman territory.. The SW limit of the territory was fixed by the right bank of the Katherine river from the Ferguson junction upstream at least as far as the Limestone Creek junction. W. Arndt, an agricultural research officer stationed in Katherine , came across an elderly Dagoman, Nolgoyma, soon to pass away, who
272-448: Was the headman of the few surviving members of the group and who provided him with some information. While taking down notes, Arndt had the impression he was recording a people who had hitherto been overlooked in the ethnographic literature. He made a brief report on their use of indigenous cereals for the journal Oceania in 1961, disclosing that this was part of a manuscript he had prepared, but not yet published, entitled "Recognition of
289-755: Was then ordained deacon in 1925 and priest in 1926 in the Church of England in Australia . He worked in Newcastle for a decade, as Curate, St Peter's, Hamilton (1926–1928); Priest-in-Charge, All Saints, Belmont (1928–1929); as a teacher at Broughton School for Boys in Newcastle (1929–1932), where he was introduced to the anthropologist and priest A. P. Elkin ; and as Curate to Elkin at St James' Church, Morpeth (1932–1935). He pursued his linguistic studies privately, but went on to obtain an M.A. in Classics at
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