Tjupan Names
Tjupan has been referred to as:
- Tjalkati
- Kuwarra (This has since been proven to be a separate dialect) [2]
- Kurlujarra
- Thuradha (Bates)
- Jupan
- Tjuparn Wangka
- Tjupany
- Tjubun (Tindale 1974)
AUSTLANG states the following:
‘‘According to Oates & Oates (1970:79), von Brandenstein made some recording at Meekatharra, and Marsh is doing depth study. Liberman (1978) treats Tjupany as a dialect of Western Desert Language , but he also questions whether it refers to a separate dialect.
Jessica Boynton is doing research on Tjupany (in 2008).
According to Hanson (Wangka Maya 2008) Tjupan (A31) has been referred to as ‘Tjalkati’, ‘Kuwarra’, and ‘Kurlujarra’. Horton treats Tjupany and Kuwarra as distinct dialects of Western Desert Language .’ [3]
The AIATSIS code for Tjupan is A31. Tindale equates Tjupan with Pinhi (pini). It appears that Pinhi is the term used by speakers to encompass a number of Western Desert dialects of the Goldfields region of Western Australia. [4] Doug Marmion in 2008 states:
‘It appears that at least some Tjuparn people use the form tjalkakarri or tjalka-kati ‘come here’, which Bates (n.d.b) records as used by Thuradha, who identified himself as Partuwangka, and which Tindale records as a feature of his Tjalkatjarra group.
A WDL informant said that tjuparn means ‘straight’, and derives from the expressiontjuparn wangka, ‘straight talk’, which would indicate that the speech variety being referred to is the people’s own, therefore in their eyes it is the proper, correct way to talk, therefore ‘straight talk’.’ [5]
