{"id":"JOSEFSSON2025-001","label":"Gizrra agurr","people_or_site":"Gizrra speakers (Western Gizrra, Kululae)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Oriomo Plateau south of the Oriomo River, South Fly District, Western Province (Western Gizrra, Kululae)","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"agurr","source_term":"bullroarer: agurr","source_language":"Gizrra; English","object_description":"A bullroarer, called agurr; its form is not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"josefsson2025_oriomo","source_type":"academic_thesis","source_url":"https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/ed77322b-0338-43c2-81a2-bb40955abdbd/content","page_or_plate":"p. 32, set (23); p. 101 appendix lexical set; pp. 5–8 (speaker numbers, Kura Creek boundary, Kululae, sources table)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Kululae village (OpenStreetMap, South Fly District), the Western Gizrra village where the van Bodegravens recorded the language that supplies the form (Josefsson 2025 p. 6); language-community anchor, not a collection point.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"South of the Oriomo River, on the plateau where the Gizrra live, the bullroarer is called agurr. Across Kura Creek, the boundary with their Bine neighbours, it is wagra. The two words descend from one ancestral name, but somewhere in Gizrra's history its sounds were turned around. Gizrra's closest linguistic relative is not on the mainland at all: it is Meryam Mir, spoken on Mer and the other eastern islands of the Torres Strait. Around a thousand people speak Gizrra, in villages such as Kululae and Waidoro.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"agurr: bullroarer (Western Gizrra). Cognate with Bine wagra; the Gizrra form is metathesized (Josefsson 2025, pp. 32, 101).","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Michael Josefsson, Deep-time diversity: The Oriomo languages of Southern New Guinea (Honours thesis, Australian National University, 2025), pp. 5–8, 32, 101","url":"https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/ed77322b-0338-43c2-81a2-bb40955abdbd/content"}],"source_citations":"Michael Josefsson, Deep-time diversity: The Oriomo languages of Southern New Guinea (Honours thesis, Australian National University, 2025), pp. 5–8, 32, 101","source_display":"Michael Josefsson, Deep-time diversity: The Oriomo languages of Southern New Guinea (Honours thesis, Australian National University, 2025), pp. 5–8, 32, 101","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called agurr; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gizrra western","display_name":"Gizrra agurr","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG48_neuhauss1911_fig173h.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG48_neuhauss1911_fig173h_thumb.jpg","alt":"Small Hube-area Schwirrholz: a slim tapered blade with a rounded point and a hole at its narrow forked end.","credit":"R. Neuhauss, Deutsch Neu-Guinea, Bd. 1 (Berlin, 1911), fig. 173h","license":"Public domain (published 1911)","source_page":"https://books.google.com/books?id=JRw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"'Kleines Schwirrholz' (small bull-roarer) from the Hube area","pool_id":"auto-PNG48_neuhauss1911_fig173h","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"josefsson2025-001-gizrra-speakers-western-gizrra-kululae"}