Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary

Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Aust...

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description Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his German editor Baron Moritz von Leonhardi published as Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (Strehlow 1907–1920) in Frankfurt. Strehlow and his editor had planned to publish a language study that included this comparative dictionary, but it remained unpublished until now due to a number of complicated historical and personal circumstances of the main characters involved with the dictionary. Strehlow’s linguistic work is historically and anthropologically significant because it probably represents the largest and most comprehensive wordlist of Indigenous languages compiled in Australia during the early stages of contact. It is an important primary source for Luritja and Aranda speakers. Both languages are spoken in homes and taught in schools in central Australia. The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-275652025-07-21T15:57:51Z Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary Kenny, Anna Dictionary languages linguistics Arrernte language Arrernte people Carl Strehlow Diyari Luritja dialect Orthography Phoneme thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic and Austronesian languages::2PB Australian Aboriginal languages thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GB Encyclopaedias and reference works::GBC Reference works thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic and Austronesian languages::2PB Australian Aboriginal languages thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GB Encyclopaedias and reference works::GBC Reference works Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his German editor Baron Moritz von Leonhardi published as Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (Strehlow 1907–1920) in Frankfurt. Strehlow and his editor had planned to publish a language study that included this comparative dictionary, but it remained unpublished until now due to a number of complicated historical and personal circumstances of the main characters involved with the dictionary. Strehlow’s linguistic work is historically and anthropologically significant because it probably represents the largest and most comprehensive wordlist of Indigenous languages compiled in Australia during the early stages of contact. It is an important primary source for Luritja and Aranda speakers. Both languages are spoken in homes and taught in schools in central Australia. The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-09-12 13:01:49 2020-04-01T12:28:25Z 2018 book 1000488 OCN: 1076639111 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29448 9781760462062 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27565 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29448/1/book%289%29.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29448/1/book%289%29.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29448/1/book%289%29.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29448/1/book%289%29.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29448/1/book%289%29.pdf ANU Press 10.22459/CSCHD.08.2018 10.22459/CSCHD.08.2018 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781760462062 open access
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Phoneme
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Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary
title Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary
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languages
linguistics
Arrernte language
Arrernte people
Carl Strehlow
Diyari
Luritja dialect
Orthography
Phoneme
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topic_facet Dictionary
languages
linguistics
Arrernte language
Arrernte people
Carl Strehlow
Diyari
Luritja dialect
Orthography
Phoneme
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