Yiman does not have a word for ‘massacre’

Ingrid Piller

Yiman does not have a word for ‘massacre’

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On October 27, 1857, a group of Aboriginal Australians, members of a group known as Yiman carried out a massacre: they attacked Hornet Bank Station, a newly-established large sheep run in Queensland. Three white men, two women and six children were killed in the attack. The women and an 11-year-old girl were raped and one man was castrated before they were clubbed to death. The event is remembered in Australian history as the ‘Hornet Bank Massacre.’

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2012

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Yiman does not have a word for ‘massacre’

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