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Purduna
Data collected by AUSTLANG
Data on the language
Alternatives names: Burduna, Buruna, Budina, Budoona, Wati Puruna, Puduna, Poodena, Poordoona, Purduma.
For additional names and alternative spellings, see the AUSTLANG website.
Classification: Pama-Nyungan language family, Kanyara group
Area: Purduna is an aboriginal language spoken in Western Australia (WA): along Yannarie River (Pindar Creek) above the edge of the coastal plain; Southwest to Winning Pool and the North side of Lyndon River; East to Mount Hamlet and Maroonah; survivors now on Towera Station. They sometimes travelled Eastward to the Henry River even though the area was in reality Tenma territory (Tindale 1974).
Number of speakers:
The National Indigenous Language 2004 Survey estimated 0 speakers of Purduna.
Vitality & transmission:
According to AUSTLANG, Purduna is “no longer fully spoken” (endangerment level 0).
Sources & bibliography
Wangka Maya PALC. 2007. Burduna dictionary 2007. South Hedland, WA: Wangka Maya PALC. (CD Rom)
Maps
Austin, Peter. 1988. Classification of southern Pilbara languages. In Papers in Australian Linguistics 17, eds. P Austin et al, 1-17. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Dench, Alan. 1995. Martuthunira, a language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Sharp, Janet and Thieberger, Nick. 2001. Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre. In Forty years on, eds. J Simpson et al, 325-335. Canberra Pacific Linguistics.
Tindale, Norman. 1974. Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Division of National Mapping, Department of National Development.
Links
Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre website: http://www.wangkamaya.org.au/
AUSTLANG website: http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au/main.php
Ethnologue webpage: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bxn
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