Nyangumarta language
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| Nyangumarta | ||
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| Spoken in: | Australia | |
| Region: | Western Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 520 (1991) | |
| Language family: | Australian Pama-Nyungan Nyungic Marrngu Nyangumarta |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | nna | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Nyangumarta is spoken by Indigenous Australians in the region of Western Australia to the south and east of Lake Waukarlykarly, including Eighty Mile Beach, and part of the Great Sandy Desert inland to near Telfer.
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[edit] Classification
Nyangumarta is a member of the Marrngu subgroup of the Nyungic branch of Pama-Nyungan languages. The other members of this group are Mangarla and Karajarri, with which it shares more features and vocabulary.
[edit] Geographic distribution
[edit] Variation/Dialects
Nyangumarta has two main dialects: Ngurlipartu, spoken in the southern, inland region, and Wanyarli, spoken in the northern, coastal region.
[edit] References
- Janet Catherine Sharp. (2004). Nyangumarta, A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
[edit] External links
- Language of the Month:15 - A Nyangumarta text.
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