WARLMANPA SUBSECTIONS

David Nash

Subsections

The Warlmanpa subsection terms are given in the table, arranged by patrimoiety. m=male, f=female
The right-hand pair of columns show the terms recorded by Spencer & Gillen as ‘Walpari’, and their equivalence with the modern Warlmanpa terms (as opposed to modern Warlpiri subsection names) is part of the evidence that Spencer & Gillen’s ‘Walpari’ at Tennant Creek were probably speakers of Warlmanpa.

**Table of subsection names**
	Warlmanpa¹		‘Walpari’²
code	m	f	m	f
A	Japaja	Napaja	Chapatcha	Napatcha
A	Jungurra	Namurlpa	Chunguri	Namilpa
B	Japanangka	Napanangka	Chapanunga	Napanunga
B	Japangarti	Napangarti	Chapungarta	Napungarta
C	Jampijinpa	Nampijinpa	Champechinpa	Nambechinpa
C	Jangala	Nangala	Chungalla	Nungalla
D	Jakama	Nakama	Chakuma	Nakuma
D	Jupula	Napula	Chupilla	Napula

¹As published by Aboriginal Land Commission 1982:26.
²Spencer & Gillen 1968 [1899]:90-1 and 1904:100-1.

[additional to §10 'Kinship terminology' of the Grammatical Preface to VOCABULARY OF THE WARLMANPA LANGUAGE]

In the Walpari tribe … a man who belongs to the same class as the woman's father-in-law, and is called Kulkuna'
'Thathana, the equivalents of the Ipmunna;
Wankillina or mother's brother's sons;
Papertina and Kukernina, elder and younger brothers;
Kullakulla, the equivalents of the Unawa of the Arunta' (Spencer & Gillen 1968 [1899]:95)

Among the above, jajana 'mother's mother('s brother)', wankilina 'cross cousin', papartina 'elder brother', and kungurnina 'junior sibling' are Warlmanpa kin terms; the first three stems are also Warlpiri but Warlpiri does not add the -na suffix as much.

References

Aboriginal Land Commission. 1982. Kaytej, Warlpiri and Warlmanpa land claim: report by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner, Mr. Justice Toohey, to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and to the Administrator of the Northern Territory. No. 14. Australian Government Publishing Service. [cat. no.8206696]

Spencer, W.B. & F.J. Gillen. 1899. The native tribes of central Australia. London: Macmillan. Republished 1968 New York: Dover Publications. http://www.archive.org/details/nativetribescen01gillgoog

Spencer, W.B. & F.J. Gillen. 1904. The northern tribes of central Australia. London: Macmillan. http://www.archive.org/details/northerntribesc00gillgoog