Disputatio:Yakka

Here I found some information about etymology: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/yakka?view=uk http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/anonymous@2E19628680+0/-/p/dict/slang-y.html

Szwejk 22:13 nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Now if only I could find some info on this Jagara... --Vladisdead 04:41 nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

I've decided to make hunting down the original word Yakka comes from a mission of mine...

Jagara is actually the name of the people - the language they spoke is called Turubul (with many spelling variations: Turrbal, Turrubul, Turrubal, Terabul, Tor-bul, Turibul). Ethnologue has a Turrubul (TBH), but it's listed as being spoken in New South Wales, while the Jagara lived in Queensland. --Vladisdead 04:58 nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Here http://www.mudcat.org/aussie/index.cfm?start_letter=Y they define the language as "Yagari". Maybe it will help you, I hope. Szwejk 16:57 nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

A bibliography of the language PDF gives the following names for the language:

Jagara, Yuggera, Yaggara

Yuggarabul, Yugarabul, Ugarapul

It is in a couple of titles equated with "Turrubul", and once with "Yerongpan". One title says "A vocabulary of the language of the Yugarabul lingual division of Australian Aborigines and incidentally of the Turrbul sub tribe at Brisbane".

Only "Turrubul" appears in Ethnologue at all, spelled Thurawal now. —Myces Tiberinus 01:22 iun 7, 2005 (UTC)