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tongue

Language: 
Sydney
Australian: 
talanga
English JS Main: 
tongue
English: 
tongue
Category: 
body parts and products
Sub-category: 
head
Source: 
Smith, Isaac
Page: 
34.1
Line: 
11
Respelt: 
dala-nga
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1770
Source Details: 
Lanyon-Ogill, Dr Peter (Smith, Isaac) Captain Cook's South Sea Island vocabularies / edited by Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill. Publisher: [Byfleet] ([5 Farm Close, Byfleet, Surrey]) : [The editor], 1979. ------------------- ISAAC SMITH details from the Lanyon-Orgill volume, p. 34: First voyage: H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771: 14 AUSTRALIA-BOTANY BAY (Smith) ‘Lanyon 8b. Isaac Smith was in fact the first member of the expedition to set foot on shore at Botany Bay. He was a brilliant surveyor and held in high esteem by Cook, and often stayed with Cook's widow in his years of retirement from the navy. The manuscript has the note: 'record made May 2, 1770'’ ’As with Monkhouse’s list, the vocabulary represents a Kuri language.’ KEITH SMITH From the Monkhouse entry, p. 33: ‘His [Monkhouse’s] vocabulary, like those recorded by Smith and Hicks, represented one of the Kuri languages, spoken in the central coastal region of New South Wales Father Wilhelm Schmidt ... noted noted that there was considedrable admixture with the Yuin languages, spoken to the south of Sydney (... 1919, p. 96), but these three vocabularies all illustrate the South Kuri language. ‘In all three vocabularies [[Monkhouse, Smith, Hicks]] the later equivalents [i.e. the ones so identified in this JS database] are derived from Schmidt or manuscript material in my own collections, for which I have been indebted to the lated Dr W.G. Ivens.’ ====================== JS LIST LOCATION: In Sydney Aboriginal: Early Readngs ringbinder; wordlist Australia Botany Bay (Monkhouse, Smith, Hicks) pp. 33-35; also in Word Lists A-L ringbinder, under 'Hicks'. Photocopy pages: preface ix-x; pp. 32-43, which included Sydney; 136-139, which includes Tasmania; and 286-287, which includes a list of the Lanyon Manuscripts.
Comment: 
Lanyon-Orgill, Dr Peter 1979 Captain Cook’s South Sea Island Vocabularies (First Voyage HMS Endeavour, 1768-1771), p. 14 left column

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