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Article: A Dutch influence on Nhanda? Wanyjidaga innga!
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Nhanda is an Aboriginal language of Western Australia, once spoken along the coastal strip from possibly as far south as Hill River north through to Champion Bay and the mouth of the Murchison, up to country just south of Shark Bay. There has been very little work on Nhanda until recent years. Thanks to grants from the Institute and the willingness of the Nhanda people, I have been able to study the Nhanda language and learn much about its structure, history, and possible relationships to other Australian Aboriginal languages.
Nhanda is quite different from the surrounding Aboriginal languages in terms of its sound patterns and its grammar, as I have documented in ...