• Source: Pitta Pitta language

pitta" target="_blank">Pitta pitta" target="_blank">Pitta (also known under several other spellings) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It was spoken around Boulia, Queensland.




Pituri


The name pituri for the leaves chewed as a stimulant by traditional Aboriginal people has been claimed to be derived from the pitta" target="_blank">Pitta pitta" target="_blank">Pitta word pijiri. though Walter Roth pointed out in 1897 that the word 'pituri', thus pronounced, was the term used by the neighbouring Yurlayurlanya people, and added that the pitta" target="_blank">Pitta pitta" target="_blank">Pitta people called it "tarembola".




Status


In 1979, Barry J. Blake reported that pitta" target="_blank">Pitta pitta" target="_blank">Pitta was "virtually extinct", with only three speakers remaining – Ivy Nardoo of Boulia, Ted Marshall and Linda Craigie of Mount Isa. It is now considered unlikely that any speakers remain.




Phonology






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= Consonants

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Vocabulary


Below is a basic vocabulary list from Blake (1981).




Sign language


The pitta" target="_blank">Pitta pitta" target="_blank">Pitta had well-developed a signed form of their language.




References



Blake, Barry J. (1979). pitta" target="_blank">Pitta-pitta" target="_blank">Pitta. In R.M.W. Dixon and Barry Blake (eds.), Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol. 1. 183–244. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.
Roth, Walter E. (1897). The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. (p. 273–301) Reprinted from Roth, W.E. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London, Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office, 1897; 71–90; Information collected from the following tribes; pitta" target="_blank">Pitta-pitta" target="_blank">Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa. Reprinted (1978) in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. New York: Plenum Press, vol. 2.




External links


Bibliography of pitta" target="_blank">Pitta pitta" target="_blank">Pitta people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bahasa Nunggubuyu
• Kata serapan dari bahasa Tamil Kuno dalam bahasa Ibrani Alkitabiah
• Tim Tebow
• Pitta Pitta language
• Indian pitta
• Pitta (disambiguation)
• Pitta
• Pitta Kathalu
• Isidro Pitta
• Gurney's pitta
• Blue-winged pitta
• Fairy pitta
• Western hooded pitta