AustLit

This is an academic linguistic text which contains numerous traditional Aboriginal stories.

The Kattang section contains text and translations of nineteen stories about hunting, fishing, and ghosts. This work includes :

a story about a Coopalourripa initiation site;

eight lines of a Kattang corroboree song;

eight lines of the corroboree song 'Two Up Song' (idenitifed as being from Shepparton by Reay - and that includes four Bandjalang words);

fourteen lines of Bandjalang dialect.

Thangatti texts include:

conversations;

eleven stories including Dreamtime stories about snakes, humans, and ghosts;

five lines of a corroboree song;

the Story of Kempsey Fig Tree in English.

This work also includes notes on the structure of morphology, syntax and metasyntax of Kattang and Thangatti languages.