Taribelang language

Gureng Gureng
Gureng Gureng
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Goreng goreng, Goeng, ?Taribelang
Extinct	(recent)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Waka–Kabic Than Gureng Gureng; ; ;
Dialects	Gureng-Gureng; Guweng-Guweng;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gnr
Glottolog	gure1255
AIATSIS	E33 E32, E33 Gureng-Gureng, Taribelang, E36 Goeng-Goeng
ELP	Gureng Gureng

Taribelang, also known as Gureng Gureng, is a language of Queensland. Although no longer spoken as a native language by the Goreng goreng or Goeng people, it is spoken as a 2nd or 3rd language by under 100. There exists some confusion between Austlang's (AIATSIS) E33: Taribelang and E36: Goeng Goeng languages.^[2]

Accent

Today some speakers have a "heavier" more guttural way of speaking, e.g. rolling the tongue when pronouncing the "rr's", starting words with Ng rather than a single N and also heavier speakers sound out a "dj" sound rather than "ch" or "t". "Heavier" speakers tend to be the more western groups from along the Burnett River of Queensland.

The more coastal families today seem to have a "lighter" way of speaking (less guttural & not rolling the tongue and using the single N at the start of words rather than the Ng & using "ch" & "t" rather than "dj" etc.) which is most likely the result of the influence of the English language in recent times.

Language revival

Since 2017, the Central Queensland Language Centre has been working on helping to restore three languages from the region – Yiiman, Byelle (Biyali) and Taribelang.^[3] As of 2020^[update], Taribelang is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".^[4]

Dari’belang - Dari meaning north

Bulang- strong {Yugumbir} (Watson 1944: 55)

Dibbil- a species of eagle (Watson, 1944: 72)

Bunda- title of a marital class; a man of that class {Kabi} (Watson 1944: 26)

Bundaberg - The city name is thought to be an artificial combination of bunda, the Kabi Aboriginal word denoting important man and the German suffix berg indicating mountain. Bunda is one of the moieties attributed to the Kabi Language Group. (Edward Curr 1886-7).

External links

Bibliography of Gureng Gureng people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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^ E33 E32, E33 Gureng-Gureng, Taribelang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
^ "Austlang". AIATSIS.
^ Wang, Amy Chien-Yu; Apostolou, Panos (2 July 2017). "Indigenous languages at risk". SBS Greek. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
^ "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

[AIATSIS-1] E33 E32, E33 Gureng-Gureng, Taribelang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)

[2] "Austlang". AIATSIS.

[3] Wang, Amy Chien-Yu; Apostolou, Panos (2 July 2017). "Indigenous languages at risk". SBS Greek. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

[4] "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

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