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Magpie names

To: "jade welch" <>, <>
Subject: Magpie names
From: "Robert Read" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:24:52 +0930
Environment Australia's

"Birds, a checklist of the avian fauna of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park"
gives the Pitjantjara name for Australian magpie as

kurparu

The "ur" sound is roughly as in "or", "a" as "u" in cup.
Pitjantjara and related dialects are spoken in the southwest NT around Ayers
Rock, south in to the northwest part of  SA and across into WA.


The "Eastern and Central Aranda to English Dictionary" by Henderson and
Dobson gives magpie as

arrpwere  and also thipe arrpwere
The "thipe" translates as flying creatures, that is birds and bats but not
emus.

This is for the area around Alice Springs and east.  Pitjantjara
pronunciations I can more or less manage, New Aranda Script is beyond me.

Robert Read
Alice Springs


" Jade    wrote

>
> I would like to know if anyone could post a list of the various aboriginal
> names given to the australian magpie. Please also include the tribe name,
> area and state the tribe comes from.
>

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