Yorta Yorta language

Infobox Language
name=Yorta Yorta
region=Victoria, Australia
speakers=
iso2=aus
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familycolor=Australian
fam1=Pama-Nyungan
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Budger's language

The Yorta Yorta language, is a group of closely related languages traditionally spoken by Yorta Yorta people, Indigenous Australians from the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in present-day northeast Victoria.

Yorta Yorta Family Groups include the Bangerang, Kailtheban, Wollithiga, Moira, Penrith, Ulupna, Kwat Kwat, Yalaba Yalaba and Nguaria-iiliam-wurrung clans. [ [http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenlwm.nsf/LinkView/7FA349BEAE0F5A3FCA256E8D00210309A4AD52AC7C448F1A4A256DEA0024EDD2 Yorta Yorta Co-operative Management Agreement] ] Although the language was moribund due to contact with Europeans, and forcible dislocation to missions, the Yorta Yorta had maintained many of their words. There have been strong moves of late to preserve and revive the language.

Two Yorta Yorta women, Lois Peeler and Sharon Atkinson, together with Dr Heather Bowe from Monash University, worked for several years to compile a comprehensive record of research material, entitled "Yorta Yorta Language Heritage". This work provided a summary of existing written records, with reference to the spoken resources, and included introductory lessons in Yorta Yorta, together with English to Yorta Yorta and Yorta Yorta to English dictionaries.

References

External links

* http://www.fatsil.org/LOTM/oct99.htm
* [http://www.lib.monash.edu/collections/monash-authors/pre2000/0858835134.html Monash University Library]