Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia

by Juliette Blevins

This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824823753
• ISBN13: 9780824823757
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"