Yir-Yoront, the Glossary
The Yir-Yoront, also known as the Yir Yiront, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula now living mostly in Kowanyama (''kawn yamar'' or 'many waters') but also in Lirrqar/Pormpuraaw, both towns outside their traditional lands.[1]
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30 relations: ANU Press, Cape York Peninsula, ǃKung people, Djabugay, English language, Francis Lascelles Jardine, Jan Carstenszoon, Kokopera, Kowanyama, Queensland, Lauriston Sharp, Marshall Sahlins, Mitchell River (Queensland), Norman Tindale, Northeast Pama–Nyungan languages, Oceania (journal), Oceanic Linguistics, Olkolo, Pama–Nyungan languages, Pormpuraaw, Queensland, Robert Heilbroner, Somerset, Queensland, Thaayorre, Totem, Trobriand people, University of Queensland Press, University of Toronto Press, Uw Oykangand, Voyage of the Pera and Arnhem to Australia in 1623, William Edward Hanley Stanner, Yir-Yoront language.
ANU Press
ANU Press (or Australian National University Press; originally ANU E Press) is a new university press (NUP) that publishes open-access books, textbooks and journals.
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. Yir-Yoront and Cape York Peninsula are far North Queensland.
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ǃKung people
The ǃKung are one of the San peoples who live mostly on the western edge of the Kalahari desert, Ovamboland (northern Namibia and southern Angola), and Botswana.
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Djabugay
The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including the Barron Gorge and surrounding areas within the Wet Tropics of Queensland. Yir-Yoront and Djabugay are Aboriginal peoples of Queensland and far North Queensland.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Francis Lascelles Jardine
Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (28 August 1841 – 19 March 1919) was a Scottish-Australian pioneer who was at the forefront of British colonisation and Aboriginal dispossession in the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait regions of Far North Queensland.
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Jan Carstenszoon
Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz was a 17th-century Dutch explorer.
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Kokopera
The Kokopera, also written Koko Bera, are an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of Northern Queensland. Yir-Yoront and Kokopera are Aboriginal peoples of Queensland.
Kowanyama, Queensland
Kowanyama is a town and coastal locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Kowanyama, Queensland, Australia.
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Lauriston Sharp
Lauriston Sharp (March 24, 1907 – December 31, 1993) was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University.
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Marshall Sahlins
Marshall David Sahlins (December 27, 1930April 5, 2021) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory.
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Mitchell River (Queensland)
The Mitchell River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
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Northeast Pama–Nyungan languages
Northeast Pama–Nyungan, or Pama–Maric, is a hypothetical language family consisting of the following neighboring branches of the Pama–Nyungan family of Australian languages.
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Oceania (journal)
Oceania is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1930.
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Oceanic Linguistics
Oceanic Linguistics is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the indigenous Australian languages, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family.
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Olkolo
The Olkolo or Koko-olkola' are an Indigenous Australian people of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. Yir-Yoront and Olkolo are Aboriginal peoples of Queensland.
Pama–Nyungan languages
The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia.
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Pormpuraaw, Queensland
Pormpuraaw (pronounced porm-pure-ow) is a coastal town and a locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Pormpuraaw, Queensland, Australia.
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Robert Heilbroner
Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought.
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Somerset, Queensland
Somerset is a coastal locality split between the Shire of Torres and the Northern Peninsula Area Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Thaayorre
The Thaayorre, or Kuuk Thaayore, are an Australian people living on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, primarily in the settlement Pormpuraaw, having its foundation in the Edward River Mission. Yir-Yoront and Thaayorre are Aboriginal peoples of Queensland and far North Queensland.
Totem
A totem (from ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system.
Trobriand people
The people of the Trobriand Islands are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who live in traditional settlements.
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University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house based in Brisbane, Queensland.
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University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.
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Uw Oykangand
The Uw Oykangand, otherwise known as the Kwantari, are an Aboriginal Australian people living on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, in the state of Queensland in Australia. Yir-Yoront and Uw Oykangand are Aboriginal peoples of Queensland and far North Queensland.
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Voyage of the Pera and Arnhem to Australia in 1623
The Pera and Arnhem were two ships from the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Companie or VOC) that explored the north Australian coast in 1623.
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William Edward Hanley Stanner
William Edward Hanley Stanner CMG (24 November 19058 October 1981), often cited as W.E.H. Stanner, was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians.
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Yir-Yoront language
Yir-Yoront was a Paman language spoken in two settlements, Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Yir-Yoront people.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yir-Yoront
Also known as Jir Joront, Jir-Joront, Jirjoront, Yir Yiront, Yir Yoront, Yir-Yiront, Yir-Yoront people, Yirr Yoront, Yirr-Yoront, Yiryoront.