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词条 Agwamin
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  1. Language

  2. Country

  3. Alternative names

  4. Some words

  5. Notes

     Citations 

  6. Sources

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The Ewamin or Agwamin were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.{{sfn|Agwamin}}

Language

Their language, now extinct, was formerly thought to be interchangeable with Wamin.{{sfn|Gordon|2005}} Peter Sutton's fieldwork in the early 1970s enabled him to draw up word-lists from two languages, respectively Wamin and Agwamin which revealed that they were separate dialects.{{sfn|Agwamin}} There was only one speaker of the language alive in 1981.{{sfn|Gordon|2005}}

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation the Ewamin had approximately {{convert|5,700|mi2|km2}} of tribal land, centering on the headwaters of the Einasleigh and Copperfield rivers. Their northern limits reached as far as Georgetown, Mount Surprise, and Lancewood. Their eastern boundaries lay up around the Great Dividing Range, while their western reaches touched the headwaters of the Percy River. They were present at the contemporary sites oft Oak Park, Einasleigh, Queensland Einasleigh and Forsayth.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=168}}

The Mbabaram lay directly north of the Ewamin. In clockwise direction, their eastern neighbours where the Warungu, and the Gugu-Badhun, and, south-east, the Gudjal. On their southern flank were the

Alternative names

  • Wimanja.
  • Agwamin.
  • Egwamin.
  • Gwamin.
  • Ak Waumin.
  • Wamin.
  • Wommin, Waumin, Wawmin.
  • Walamin.
  • Wommin.
  • Walming.
  • Wailoolo.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=168}}

Some words

  • twa (dog){{sfn|Sutton|1973|p=64}}

Notes

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Citations

Sources

{{refbegin|30em}}
  • {{Cite web| title = Agwamin

| publisher = AIATSIS
| url = https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/Y132
| ref = {{harvid|Agwamin}}
}}
  • {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia

| publisher = AIATSIS
| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Wamin

| year = 2005
| title = Ethnologue: Languages of the World
| edition = 15th
| editor-last = Gordon | editor-first = Raymond G., Jr
| publisher = Summer Institute of Linguistics | location = Dallas
| chapter-url = http://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_language/wmi/
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| title = Gugu-Badshun and its neighbours: A Linguistic Salvage Study

| last = Sutton | first = Peter
| author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
| publisher = Macquarie University M. A. honours thesis
| url = https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/func/cyp/sutton/1973gugubadhun.pdf
| format = PDF
| date = November 1973
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| title = Languages of Cape York: papers presented to the linguistic symposium, part B, held in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial General Meeting, May, 1974

| last = Sutton | first = Peter
| author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
| year = 1975
| editor-last = Sutton | editor-first = Peter
| publisher = Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
| pages = 116–120
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Ewamin (QLD)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = Australian National University
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/ewamin.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
| ref = harv
}}{{refend}}{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}

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