Pitta Pitta language
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Pitta Pitta (also known under several other spellings) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It was spoken around Boulia, Queensland.
Pituri
The name pituri for the leaves chewed as a stimulant by traditional Aboriginal people is thought to derive from the Pitta Pitta word pijiri.[5][6]
Status
In 1979, Barry J. Blake reported that Pitta Pitta was "virtually extinct", with only two speakers remaining – Ivy Nardoo of Boulia, and Linda Craigie of Mount Isa.[1] It is now considered unlikely that any speakers remain.[7]
Sign language
The Pitta Pitta had well-developed a signed form of their language.[8]
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- Roth, Walter E. (1897). The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. (p. 273–301) Reprinted from Roth, W.E. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London, Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office, 1897; 71–90; Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa. Reprinted (1978) in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. New York: Plenum Press, vol. 2.
External links
- Bibliography of Pitta Pitta people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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- ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxvii
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- ↑ Pitta Pitta (other dialects listed from here) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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