Note: This page is just a pointer to some of the main resources on Wiradjuri language

Note: Parkes Wiradjuri Language Group Wiradjuri Language Website is no longer.

See also 'Selected Bibliography of materials on the Wiradjuri Language and People held in the AIATSIS Library' (June 2006), and Wiradjuri entries in The World Wide Web Virtual Library : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, edited by David Nathan.

Modern published vocabulary and grammar

A new Wiradjuri dictionary, compiled by Stan Grant (Senr) and Dr John Rudder. 2010. O'Connor, ACT: Restoration House. * http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37421487 * Note: publisher is out of business

A first Wiradjuri dictionary, compiled by Stan Grant (Senr) and Dr John Rudder. 2005. O'Connor, ACT: Restoration House. * http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31591360 * Note: publisher is out of business

'Wiradjuri', by Sally McNicol and Dianne Hosking. Chapter 5 in  Macquarie Aboriginal Words: a dictionary of words of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, ed. by N Thieberger & W Macgregor, 1994. The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd * http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23178838
= ASEDA item 0536

19th century sources

Horatio Hale with the Rev. William Watson

writings of the Rev. James William (Jakob Wilhelm) Günther (father of William James Gunther)

1838
Vocabulary of the Native Dialect Wirradurri spoken in the Wellington District &c &c &c
by Rev Jas. James Günther
ML C136, Mitchell Library, Sydney
digitised : colour scans
http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/c-136-native-dialect-wirradurri-spoken-wellington-district-1838?page=6
http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=1046036
monochrome microfilm : CY reel 936, frames 350–515 (C 136) http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=947986

some other relevant resources

Nash, David. 2014. Comitative placenames in central NSW,  Chapter 2, pages 11-37 in Indigenous and Minority Place Names – Australian and International Perspectives edited by Ian Clark, Luise Hercus, and Laura Kostanski. Canberra: ANU Press & Aboriginal History Inc. (Aboriginal History Monograph) ISBN 9781925021622 (Print version), ISBN 9781925021639 (Online) * http://press.anu.edu.au?p=286811 whole volume, chapter  http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ch021.pdf * from 1974 essay
additions: Parish of Julandery -32 54 24    146 44 11
Parish of Merrimarotherie -33 16     147 01 
Parish of Morotherie    -29  40  04     143  33  49
Bungolanjery Point, previously Bungotanjery Point (Carrathool LGA)   -34 35  145 52

Nash, David. 2007. Worksheet on the -djuri ending in placenames.

Carey, Hilary M. and David A. Roberts (eds). 2002. The Wellington Valley Project. Papers Relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley, New South Wales 1830–42. A Critical Electronic Edition. University of Newcastle.

Austin, Peter. 1997. Proto central New South Wales phonology, pp.21-49 in Boundary rider: essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady, ed. by Darrell Tryon and Michael Walsh. Pacific Linguistics C-136. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University

Miller, Patti. 2012. The mind of a thief. University of Queensland Press. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/162009924 • set around Wellington; includes long quotations from diaries of Watson and Günther

using old sources

Paper and Talk, A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian indigenous languages from historical sources, ed, N Thieberger, 1995, reprinted 2005. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

This volume contains excellent general advice on how to use old written sources; and as it happens p.42 reproduces an extract from one Günther's manuscripts (part of frame 402 of the 1838 Vocabulary)

placename study

NSW government agencies