| Matngele | ||||
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| Spoken in | Northern Territory, Australia | |||
| Native speakers | 15 (1983) | |||
| Language family |
Daly?
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| Writing system | Latin | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | zml | |||
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Matngele or Madngele is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory.
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Matngele is commonly placed in the Daly family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) believes it to be related to Kamu, but regards further relationships as unproven.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ɵ | |
| Low | a |
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
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| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Stop | Voiceless | p | k | c | t | |
| Voiced | b | ɡ | ɟ | d | ||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | ||
| Lateral | ʎ | l | ||||
| Rhotic | r | ɻ | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
Matngele has only five simple verbs. These must be combined with coverbs in order to form complex verbs.