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This Work includes chapters:
The language and its major recorders
The early recorders
The conflictions in the language
Local groups
The word Gandanguurra
The word Burragorang
Map of the Gandanguurra territory
The alphabet (and basic grammar)
Verbs and pronouns
Nouns and case marking
Demonstratives
Word building
Adjectives and adverbs
Yes and no
The degrees of comparison
Plurality
Aphaeresis and apocope
Loan words
Gender
Songs
Dog and dingo
The word "gaduumba"
The word nguurra [camp]
Place names
The vagaries of place names in the Blue Mountains
Gandanguurra and its rivers
The word for "water" Ngadyuung
The legend of the origin of water
Phrases
Abbreviations
Definitions
Appendix 1: Relationship with Ngunawal & Ngarrugu (midang suffix fixing)
Appendix 2: Midhang map
Appendix 3: A proposal on the two demonstratives
Appendix 4: Guulaa (man, fellow, person etc.)
Appendix 5 (a) End notes (publications)
Appendix 5 (b) End notes (References)
Appendix 6: Map of lower Burragorang
Appendix 7 : Recorders of the Gandaguurra language
Appendix 8: Gandanguurra word list (1) General (2) Verbs.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Burragorang Valley, MacArthur area (Camden - Campbelltown), Sydney, New South Wales,
- New South Wales,
- Aboriginal Gundungurra language
- Aboriginal Ngunawal/Ngunnawal AIATSIS Code: D3 ACT NSW language
