Research Catalog

Title

An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, or lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) : being an account of their language, traditions, and customs / by L.E. Threlkeld. Re-arranged, condensed, and ed., with an appendix, by John Fraser ...

Author

Threlkeld, L. E. (Lancelot Edward), 1788-1859.

Publication

Sydney : C. Potter, Govt. Printer, 1892.

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Additional Authors

• Fraser, John (Of New South Wales)
• Livingstone, H.
• Taplin, George.
• Günther, James, -1879.
• Broughton, William Grant, 1788-1853.
• Ridley, William, 1819-1878.

Description

lxiv pages, 3 leaves, [v]-x, 227, 148 pages : frontispiece (folded map), plate, portraits; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Bible. Luke. Awabakal. 1892.

Subjects

• Ethnology > Australia > New South Wales
• Australian languages

Note

• Part I includes reproductions of the original title-pages to the Grammar, 1834, and the Key, 1850; pts. II-III have special title-pages dated 1891 and 1892 respectively.

Contents

Introduction.--pt. I. The Grammar and the Key: Grammar of the Awabakal dialect. Vocabulary of the Awabakal dialect. The key to the structure of the Awabakal dialect.--pt. II. Translation of the Gospel by St. Luke.--pt. III. The lexicon to the Gospel by St. Luke.--pt. IV. The appendix: Grammar and vocabulary of the Minyung dialect [by H. Livingstone] Grammar of the Narrinyeri and other dialects of South Australia [by G. Taplin] Grammar of a dialect in Western Australia. Grammar and vocabulary of the Wiradhari dialect in New South Wales [by Archdeacon Günther] Prayers in the Awabakal dialect [by W.G. Broughton] Sentences in the Kamalarai dialect [by W. Ridley] The earliest specimen of an Australian language [by L.E. Threlkeld]

LCCN

03021757

OCLC

• ocm02854408
• SCSB-3931616

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries