Yinikutira , also recorded as the Jinigudira , are the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land along the Ningaloo Coast in the area of the Exmouth Peninsula in Western Australia now known as the Cape Range National Park . The area is within the Gascoyne region.
17-633: The Yinikurtira spoke a dialect of Thalanyji . The Yinikurtira's traditional lands enclosed about 2,000 square miles (5,200 km) around the North West Cape peninsula area down to Exmouth Gulf and the Whaleback Hills, and from the cape southwest to Point Cloates . Norman Tindale classified the Yinikutira as a distinct tribe, on the basis of his informants who insisted that traditionally they had been distinct and separate from
34-406: A dictionary of Diyari (South Australia) and a biography of his Diyari teacher Ben Murray. He has done fieldwork on twelve Australian Aboriginal languages , particularly those from northern New South Wales ( such as Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi ), northern South Australia , and north-west Western Australia , publishing several bilingual dictionaries. These included, in collaboration with David Nathan,
51-411: A manuscript ( Naufraghi dello Stefano ) written up by a Jesuit priest, Stefano Scurla, which also contains a word-list of the language they learnt, a Ngarluma creole, during their three month sojourn with the Yinikutira. The Yinikutira's staple diet was based on fish, turtle and dugong . They lived in the mangroves and would venture out to sea on logs. In that same year, 1876, the first pastoral lease
68-824: Is an Australian linguist , widely published in the fields of language documentation , syntax , linguistic typology and in particular, endangered languages and language revitalisation . After a long academic career in Australia, Hong Kong, the US, Japan, Germany and the UK, Austin is emeritus professor at SOAS University of London since retiring in December 2018. After completing a BA degree with first class Honours in Asian Studies (Japanese and Linguistics) in 1974, Austin earned his PhD with his thesis entitled A grammar of
85-752: The Mandean communities of Syria, Iraq and Iran. During his retirement, he worked with colleagues at University of Warsaw and Leiden University on an EU Horizon2020 Twinning collaboration called the Engaged Humanities project. He also worked with Stefanie Pillai of the University of Malaya , on a research project funded by the British Academy in Malaysia . In 2020 he was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship (2021-2023) to work on
102-723: The Pilbara region of Western Australia . They are part of the Kanyara subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan language family . They are spoken by the Thalanyji and Pinikura peoples respectively. Both languages are thought to be extinct ; there were six speakers of Thalanyji recorded in 2004/5, and ten speakers of Pinikura recorded in 1975, but none since in either language. According to Peter Austin , Pinikura, Thalanyji, Payungu and Purdana "should probably be classified as belonging to
119-812: The Diyari language of north-east South Australia at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1978. He then taught at the University of Western Australia , held a Harkness Fellowship at UCLA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1979–80, and in 1981 headed the Division (later Department) of Linguistics at La Trobe University in Melbourne . He held visiting appointments at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen , Tokyo University of Foreign Studies , University of Hong Kong , and Stanford University , and
136-454: The Kanyara subgroup". Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Deak, Eleonora. 2008. Thalanyji sketch grammar : 2008 . Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre. 155pp. This Australian Aboriginal languages -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peter Austin (linguist) Peter Kenneth Austin , often cited as Peter K. Austin ,
153-639: The Ningaloo coast as early as the 1790s, and it is thought probably they landed to seek meat and refresh their water supplies. Yinikutira people gave assistance and then hospitality to two Dalmatian Italians from the Austro-Hungarian Stefano after Stefano was wrecked on the Ningaloo Reef in 1875. The two, Michele Bacich (17) and Giovanni Iurich (20), later, on repatriation to Ragusa , provided an account of their experiences in
170-524: The eastern Thalanyji. Peter Austin sees them as a dialect subdivision of the Thalanyji-speaking people. While they were observed by early explorers deploying rafts to venture out into the sea for hunting, their primary source of food came from a network of fish traps which they maintained in tidal estuaries. The area was described by William Dampier , in 1699, and American whalers are known to have hunted sperm and then humpback whales off
187-594: The first fully page-formatted hypertext dictionary of an Australian language, with the creation of the 1994 Gamilaraay online dictionary. He has worked extensively and intensively on the Dieri (Diyari) language of northern SA. He first learned Diyari in 1974, from several fluent native-speakers, including Leslie Russell, Frieda Merrick, Rosa Warren, and Ben Murray, who he encountered in Marree, South Australia . Along with Luise Hercus and David Trefry, he did much research on
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#1732801960088204-510: The language in the 1970s. Austin published a grammar of Diyari in 1981. From 2011 he has been working with the Dieri Aboriginal Corporation on revitalisation of the language. In 2013 he published a draft Diyari dictionary, writing in the preface that a companion grammar was also available, and that a text collection was in preparation. In 2014 he published an article "And still they speak Diyari", in which he wrote of
221-522: The local workforce among pearlers and pastoralists began to recruit indigenous tribes. The provisions of the subsequent Master and Servant Act (1867) meant that in this area, as applied, natives who absconded from contracted service ended up doing hard labour in Roebourne prison. The available evidence suggests that the local tribes such as the Yinikutira were decimated by the practice of blackbirding and introduced diseases. No indigenous people of
238-752: The present day claim descent from the Yunikutira. The Yardie Creek Station was eventually re-acquired in 1959 by the Western Australian Government to become part of the Cape Range National Park. The Yinikutira practised a distinctive form of burial not shared by other Thalanyji-speaking peoples. Dhalandji language Thalanyji (also spelt Dhalandji , Thalanyji , and other variations) and Binigura / Pinikura (also spelt Pinigura , Binnigoora , and other variations) are two closely related languages from
255-503: The unique place of the language, as the subject of intensive interest by outsiders as well as native speakers for nearly 140 years, and that not only is it not extinct, but it is living and being maintained for the future. Since 2013 Austin has maintained a blog on Diyari . The blog is one of a number of language revitalisation and reclamation activities held in conjunction with the Dieri community. Since 1995, Austin has also worked on
272-735: Was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne from 1996 to 2002. He became the Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics in January 2003 and then Emeritus Professor in Field Linguistics at SOAS on his retirement in December 2018. Throughout his career, Austin has been deeply involved in work to document and describe languages that are otherwise on the verge of extinction. He worked with Eli Timan on documenting Judeo-Iraqi Arabic , and with Sabah Aldihisi on Neo-Mandaic ritual language used by
289-615: Was taken up in the area when Minilya Station was established over the Exmouth Peninsula in its entirely. After subdivisions, Thomas Carter established the Yardie Creek Station over 54,600 hectares. At some point in this time, the Yinikutira disappeared from history. It has been speculated that, after the Colonial Secretary's Office forbade the use of convict labour above the 26th parallel ,
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