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词条 Nunggubuyu people
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  1. Language

  2. Country

  3. History

  4. Social structure

  5. Notes

     Citations 

  6. Sources

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The Nunggubuyu are an indigenous Australian people of eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Language

Nunggubuyu also called Wubuy is a non-Pama Nyungan language{{sfn|Musgrave|Thieberger|2012|p=65}} characterized by head marking with an intricate verb prefix morphology, bound pronominal forms for subject and object and prefixed noun classes.{{sfn|McConvell|2010|p=772}} Together with Anindilyagwa it shares the distinction of being one of the most grammatically complicated Australian languages.{{sfn|Leeding|1996|p=193}}{{efn|'The Nunggubuyu language, . may be an example of cultural complexity that approaches the limit of what the human mind is capable of learning, a complexity that may have arisen from millennia old relative isolation,'{{sfn|Burbank|2011|p=24}} }} It has at least 28 loanwords from Makassarese language.{{sfn|Evans|1992|p=47}} Its affiliation with other native Australian languages is disputed. Some speak of a Nunggubuyu–Ngandi language family,{{sfn|McConvell|2010|p=772}} or of it belonging to a larger Gunwingguan language family.{{sfn|Grimes|2003|pp=119–120}}

The first dictionary of the language was written by the missionary Earl Hughes, who lived among the Nunggubuy for 17 years and spoke the language fluently.{{sfn|Burbank|2011|p=24}} Intensive follow-up work, resulting in two major monographs, was undertaken by Jeffrey Heath in the 1970s.

Country

The Nunggubuyu's traditional lands extended over some {{convert|3,700|mi2|km2}} southwards from Cape Barrow and Harris Creek to the coastal area opposite Edward Island, and their western boundaries were formed by the Rose and Walker Rivers.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=234}}

History

The Nunggubuyu had very important cultural and economic ties with the Warndarang, extinct now as a distinct language group though descendants of several clans of the latter were absorbed by the Nunggubuyu.{{sfn|Heath|1978|p=16}}{{sfn|Heath|1982|p=6}}

Social structure

As elsewhere in Australia, kinship and descent are dominant concerns of Nunggubuyu society. However they do not share the very frequent system of sections and subsections that determine affinal relations in many Australian tribes, but rather interpersonal genealogical relationships undergird the social structure. This feature, anomalous for the area, is one the Nunggubuyu share with Papuan and Melanasian peoples, such as the Marind-Anim people.{{sfn|van der Leeden|2013|pp=150,155}}

The society is structured by a four-fold division covering moieties, phratries, clans and patriarchal lineages

There are two moieties: the Mandayung (with myths that tend to associate it with continuity and dispute resolution) and the Mandaridja, whose myths suggest experimentation and change. They mirror in some respects the dua/yiridja moiety structures of northeast Arnhem Land.{{cn|date=March 2017}} For this reason Mandaridja people absorb into their totemic systems things that are of foreigtn provenance, such as ships, planes and tractors. There are two mytho-ritual complexes divided among these respective moieties. The Mandayung are the proprietors of the Gunabibi cult, while the Mandaridja control the Ru:1 cult.{{sfn|van der Leeden|2013|p=154}}

Notes

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Citations

Sources

{{refbegin|30em}}
  • {{Cite book| title = An Ethnography of Stress: The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia

| last = Burbank | first = Victoria Katherine
| publisher = Springer
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24
| date = 2011
| isbn = 978-0-230-11722-8
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite journal | title = Myths and Tales of the Nunggubuyu, S.E. Arnhem Land

| last = Capell | first = Arthur
| author-link = Arthur Capell
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 31 | issue = 1 | pages = 31–62
| date = September 1960
| jstor = 40329241
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite journal | title = The Structure of Arnhem Land Song-Poetry

| last = Clunies Ross | first = Margaret
| author-link = Margaret Clunies Ross
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 49 | issue = 2 | pages = 128–156
| date = December 1978
| jstor = 40330404
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite journal | title = Macassan loanwords in topend languages

| last = Evans | first = Nicholas
| author-link = Nicholas Evans (linguist)
| journal = Australian Journal of Linguistics
| year = 1992 | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 45–91
| url = https://www.scribd.com/document/279574951/Macassan-loan-words-in-Top-End-Languages-Nicholas-Evans
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Gunwingguan languages

| last = Grimes | first = Barbara
| title = International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: AAVE-Esperanto. Vol. 1
| editor-last = Frawley | editor-first = William
| year = 2003
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| pages = 119–120
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&pg=RA1-PA119
| isbn = 978-0-195-13977-8
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| title = Linguistic diffusion in Arnhem Land

| last = Heath | first = Jeffrey
| author-link = Jeffrey Heath
| publisher = Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
| date = 1978
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| title = Nunggubuyu myths and ethnographic texts

| last = Heath | first = Jeffrey
| author-link = Jeffrey Heath
| publisher = Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
| url = https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/117640/Heath%20Nunggubuyu%20Myths%20and%20Ethnographic%20Texts.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
| date = 1980
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| title = Nunggubuyu Dictionary

| last = Heath | first = Jeffrey
| author-link = Jeffrey Heath
| publisher = Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
| url = http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2049478/component/escidoc:2049477/nunggubuyudictionary_heath1982_o.pdf
| format = PDF
| date = 1982
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Nunggubuyu Aboriginals and Marind-Anim: Preliminary Comparisons bertween South-Eastern Arnhem Land and Southern New Guinea

| last = van der Leeden | first = A.C.
| title = Explorations in the anthropology of religion: Essays in Honour of Jan van Baal
| editor1-last = van Beek | editor1-first = W. E. A.
| editor2-last = Scherer | editor2-first = J. H.
| year = 2013
| publisher = Springer
| pages = 147–165
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7Uj8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155
| isbn = 978-9-401-74902-2
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Body parts and possession in Anindilyakwa

| last = Leeding | first = Velma J.
| title = The Grammar of Inalienability: A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-whole Relation
| editor1-last = Chappell | editor1-first = Hilary
| editor2-last = McGregory | editor2-first = William
| year = 1996
| publisher = Walter de Gruyter
| pages = 193–249
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zH0DG9Q8MmAC&pg=PA193
| isbn = 978-3-110-12804-8
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia

| last = McConvell | first = Patrick
| title = The Handbook of Language Contact
| editor-last = Hickey | editor-first = Raymond
| year = 2010
| publisher = John Wiley & Sons
| pages = 770–783
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xGZedef70zAC&pg=PA772
| isbn = 978-1-405-17580-7
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite journal | title = Language description and hypertext: Nunggubuyu as a case study

| last1 = Musgrave | first1 = Simon
| last2 = Thieberger | first2 = Nick
| editor-last = Nordhoff | editor-first = Sebastian
| journal = Language Documentation & Conservation
| publisher = Electronic Grammaticography
| issue = Special Publication No. 4 | pages = 63–77
| url = https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4530/1/musgrave.pdf
| format = PDF
| date = October 2012
| ref = harv
}}
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Nunggubuju (NT)

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

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