14. Language
A selection of words taken from John Green’s ‘Upper Yarra Vocabulary’, 1878[i].
| barefoot | yearrnjenong |
| bee | manerlong |
| belong | noogal |
| birds | queep-queep |
| blood | goorrk |
| body | tooleroom |
| breath | nga-angò |
| canoe | koorong |
| child | boopoop, boopup, booboop |
| dance | ngarrg’eé |
| darling | yadabiling |
| dinner | tangerboon |
| dog | earingin |
| eat | tangarrbéá |
| evil | nilimjak-kooring |
| father | marmun |
| family | booboop narrkwarren |
| food | qeeap |
| grandmother | maloong-goongò |
| ha ! | ki ! |
| happy | barrbon-neen |
| heart | dorrong |
| hill | banool |
| kangaroo | mirrm |
| lake | bol-lok |
| look | nang-nak |
| man | kolin, koolin |
| mate | jerrup |
| memory | ngargerr-moon |
| moon | meene-an |
| pregnant | koonoong-warren |
| shame | wol-anin |
| sleep | ngi-gool |
| snake | koormiel |
| strong | ballerrt |
| sun | ngumi |
| talk | toom-nee |
| tree | kalk, bajerrang |
| water, fresh | paen |
| woman | baggarrook, dajor |
| yes | ngie |
| you | warr |
Facsimile text reproduced in machine readable format for the Aboriginal Languages of Victoria Resource Portal by the Monash University Linguistics team, as part of ARC Linkage Grant number LP0775283 (2007).
[i] Green, John. 1878. “Upper Yarra” vocabulary. In Smyth, R. Brough. The Aborigines of Victoria and other Parts of Australia and Tasmania. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer, republished in facsimile 1972. Melbourne: John Currey, O’Neil. Vol 2. p 98-114.
A selection of words taken from John Green’s ‘Upper Yarra Vocabulary’, 1878[i].
| barefoot | yearrnjenong |
| bee | manerlong |
| belong | noogal |
| birds | queep-queep |
| blood | goorrk |
| body | tooleroom |
| breath | nga-angò |
| canoe | koorong |
| child | boopoop, boopup, booboop |
| dance | ngarrg’eé |
| darling | yadabiling |
| dinner | tangerboon |
| dog | earingin |
| eat | tangarrbéá |
| evil | nilimjak-kooring |
| father | marmun |
| family | booboop narrkwarren |
| food | qeeap |
| grandmother | maloong-goongò |
| ha ! | ki ! |
| happy | barrbon-neen |
| heart | dorrong |
| hill | banool |
| kangaroo | mirrm |
| lake | bol-lok |
| look | nang-nak |
| man | kolin, koolin |
| mate | jerrup |
| memory | ngargerr-moon |
| moon | meene-an |
| pregnant | koonoong-warren |
| shame | wol-anin |
| sleep | ngi-gool |
| snake | koormiel |
| strong | ballerrt |
| sun | ngumi |
| talk | toom-nee |
| tree | kalk, bajerrang |
| water, fresh | paen |
| woman | baggarrook, dajor |
| yes | ngie |
| you | warr |
Facsimile text reproduced in machine readable format for the Aboriginal Languages of Victoria Resource Portal by the Monash University Linguistics team, as part of ARC Linkage Grant number LP0775283 (2007).
[i] Green, John. 1878. “Upper Yarra” vocabulary. In Smyth, R. Brough. The Aborigines of Victoria and other Parts of Australia and Tasmania. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer, republished in facsimile 1972. Melbourne: John Currey, O’Neil. Vol 2. p 98-114.
