Language historically spoken by the Kaurna people of South Australia
Kaurna
Kaurna language
Kaurna Warra
Region
South Australia
Ethnicity
Kaurna
Extinct
Extinct as a first language since 25 December 1929, with the death of Ivaritji
Revival
Subsequently revived, with a growing number of L2 speakers
Language family
Pama-Nyungan
Thura-Yura
Kadli?
Kaurna
Language codes
ISO 639-3
zku
Linguist List
zku
Glottolog
kaur1267
AIATSIS[1]
L3
ELP
Kaurna
Kaurna is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Kaurna (/ˈɡɑːnə/ or /ˈɡaʊnə/) is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. The Kaurna peoples are made up of various tribal clan groups, each with their own parnkarra district of land and local dialect. These dialects were historically spoken in the area bounded by Crystal Brook and Clare in the north, Cape Jervis in the south, and just over the Mount Lofty Ranges. Kaurna ceased to be spoken on an everyday basis in the 19th century and the last known native speaker, Ivaritji, died in 1929. Language revival efforts began in the 1980s, with the language now frequently used for ceremonial purposes, such as dual naming and welcome to country ceremonies.
^L3 Kaurna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Kaurna (/ˈɡɑːnə/ or /ˈɡaʊnə/) is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. The Kaurna...
They were known as the Adelaide tribe by the early settlers. Kaurna culture and language were almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the...
Adelaide region are the Kaurna. The area of the city centre and surrounding Park Lands is called Tarndanya in the Kaurnalanguage. Adelaide is situated...
indigenous languages. Significant challenges exist, however, for the revival of languages in the dominant English language culture of Australia. The Kaurna language...
Merildekald, is an extinct Pama-Nyungan language of the Peramangk lands in South Australia. Like its congener the Kaurnalanguage, it was previously listed as endangered...
October 2019). ""Dreadful" decline in Kaurnalanguage teaching". InDaily. Retrieved 14 December 2023. "Living languages". AIATSIS. Retrieved 24 August 2021...
and some from Narungga, but very few from the Kaurnalanguage (the language of Adelaide). The language evolved from the people who grew up in missions...
Brown Hill Creek, also known as Willawilla in the Kaurnalanguage, is a watercourse flowing from the Adelaide Hills through in the inner south suburbs...
Adelaide city centre (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply...
Australian Aboriginal languages, in particular language revitalisation of endangered languages, and focused primarily on the Kaurnalanguage of the Adelaide...
project, working with Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi, a Kaurnalanguage project run by the University of Adelaide in collaboration with Kaurna advisors. The dual...
re-introduce the language and one way was through teaching, which also included the making of a teaching guide for the Kaurnalanguage. Language documentation...
Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi, a Kaurnalanguage college in Adelaide, Australia Konservatorium Wien, a...
one image was of a pair of playthings, a sling and a ball. In the Kaurnalanguage a ball is a pando or parndo. An 1857 sketch found in 2007 describes...
grammar of the language, and as of 2019, there is a project under way to teach it in schools.[citation needed] Kaurna is the language of the Kaurna people of...
rain" in the Kaurnalanguage. Ivaritji was born in Port Adelaide, South Australia, in the late 1840s to Ityamai-itpina, a leader of the Kaurna people, and...
assigned in the Kaurnalanguage of the original inhabitants. Iparrityi (c.1847—1929), also known as Amelia Taylor, was the last full-blood Kaurna person and...
Aboriginal people in South Australia. He was a pioneer in describing the Kaurnalanguage, after his work begun at the Piltawodli Native Location in Adelaide...
Warriparinga, also spelt Warriparingga, (meaning Windy Place in the local Kaurnalanguage) is a nature reserve comprising 3.5 hectares (8.6 acres) in the metropolitan...
dances. Hunting emus, known as kari in the Kaurnalanguage, features in the major Dreaming story of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide region about the ancestor...
Adelaide City Council, a second name, Tangkaira, was assigned in the Kaurnalanguage of the original inhabitants. The street naming committee named the...
part of the city's water supply. The river is also known by the native Kaurna name for the river—Karrawirra Parri or Karrawirraparri (karra meaning redgum...
Australian Aboriginal scholar. She was a Kaurna elder and part of the team that revived the Kaurnalanguage. Alitya (Alice Dorothy) Wallara Richards was...
the traditional owners of the area, the Kaurna people, was Mudlangga, meaning "nose-place" in the Kaurnalanguage. Lefevre Peninsula, with a population...
possibly from the Kaurnalanguage. They are called wiltjas in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara languages, mia-mia in Wadawurrung language. They were temporary...
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