Kaurna EAA (Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Horton ed.) * Kaurna AIATSIS (Austr. Inst. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) L.03 Kaurna (click) SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) nd	State: SA (please be aware that this map is NOT hand-drawn, but machine generated using approximate coordinates adjusted from Tindale's records. This map is only here to provide a very general idea of the location)
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Alternative names found in the literature for this group * Kaurna Kaura Coorna Koornawarra Nantuwara ("Kangaroo speakers" to north. groups) Meljurna ("quarrelsome men" northern grp) Warra (language name) Kurumidlante ("evil spirits" by Pangkala) Karnuwarra ("hills language") Adelaide tribe Jaitjawara ("our language") Merelde (by Ramindjeri)	User contributions 2004-08-24 What was the kaurna tribes culture 2005-02-09 Kaurna pronounced gana 2005-02-09 Garna Unfortunately, because of too many misuses, the possibility for visitors to add comments here was taken out of the system. It will be added again at a later stage with a more severe control mechanism. Sorry to all those well-intentioned who have contributed to make these pages a collective place of growing knowledge....
Place and geographical locations that are often associated to this group. Please note that these are places that were or are mentioned in the literature, some are inaccurate. Under no circumstances can this list be used in the context of any sorts of claims, indigenous or not. Blyth; Cape Jervis; Clarendon; Crystal Brook; Gawler; Gulf St Vincent; Hamley Bridge; Hoyleton; Hummock Range; Mount Lofty Range; Myponga; Port Wakefield; Rapid Bay; Red Hill; Snowtown;

Bibliographic references for this record

I suggest you also use the above-mentioned AIATSIS name in the AIATSIS MURA catalogue for bibliographic references

ABBIE A.A. 1966. The Aborigines of South Australia. In R.J. Best, Introducing South Australia. : , p. .

AMERY R. 1993. Encoding new concepts in old languages: a case study of Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide plains. Austr Aborig Stud, 1, p. 37-47.

BERNDT R.M. 1940. Some aspects of Jaraldi culture. Oceania, 11(2), p. 164-185.

BLACK J.M. 1920. Vocabularies of four South Australian languages, Adelaide, Narrunga, Kukata, and Narrinyeri, with special reference to their speach sounds. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 44, p. 76-93.

CLARKE P.A. 1991. Penney as ethnographer. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 29(1&2), p. 88-107.

GALE F. 1968. Patterns of post-European migration in South Australia. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, 67, p. 21-37.

GALE M.-A. 1992. Publish or perish: observations on the reasons for writing in Aboriginal languages. Australian Aboriginal studies, 2, p. 42-8.

ROB AMERY 1996. Kaurna in Tasmania: a case of mistaken identity. Aboriginal history, 20(24-50), p. .

TINDALE N.B. 1941. Native song of the South-east of South Australia: part II. Royal Society of South Australia, 65, p. 233-243.

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