Afghans and Aborigines
Diyari texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11963572 |
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| Authors | Ben Murray (corresponding author), Peter K Austin (0000-0002-3180-0524), Peter Austin |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aboriginal History Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-8769 • E-ISSN: 1837-9389 |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/ah.05.2011.04 |
| OpenAlex | W2260044350 |
| Language | EN |
Ben Murray, the oldest and most fluent speaker of Diyari, now lives at Marree, South Australia, where he was bom in 1891. His mother was Arabana and his father Afghan. Diyari was formerly spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in the far north of South Australia and currently has fewer than a dozen speakers. Ben Murray's two humorous stories about encounters with Afghans were told in Diyari to Peter Austin, who transcribes and analyses
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| Highly cited | No |
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