Placenames as a guide to language distribution in the Upper Hunter, and the landnám problem in Australian toponomastics

Title: Placenames as a guide to language distribution in the Upper Hunter, and the landnám problem in Australian toponomastics
Creator: Wafer, Jim
Relation: Indigenous and Minority Placenames: Australian and International Perspectives p. 57-81
Relation: http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Indigenous+and+Minority+Placenames+Australian+and+International+Perspectives/11111/ch04.xhtml
Publisher: ANU Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: The question of what language or languages was or were spoken in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales (NSW) is vexed. The NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre’s current draft ‘Map of NSW Aboriginal languages’ leaves the Upper Hunter blank. In earlier attempts to identify the languages spoken in this region, from the coastal areas occupied by ‘Awabakal’ and ‘Worimi’ to the headwaters of the Hunter in the Great Dividing Range, Tindale (1974: 193 and map) filled the space with a language he called ‘Geawegal’, and the Central Mapping Authority (‘CMA’) of NSW (1987) and Horton (1996) followed suit.
Subject: Aboriginal Australia; Aboriginal geographical names
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066245
Identifier: uon:18058
Identifier: ISBN:9781925021639
Language: eng

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