Ngardi language

Not to be confused with Ngardilpa (linguistics).
Ngardi
Spoken in Northern Territory and Western Australia
Native speakers 80–100 with varying degrees of fluency  (date missing)
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Linguist List 08r
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Ngardi or Ngardilj is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.

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Classication

Capell (1962) considered Ngardi, Warlpiri, and Warlmanpa to be dialects of a single language. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) groups Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa group, but admits that this is based on limited data. Honeyman (2005) classified it as Ngumbin.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Back
High i u
Low a

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Stop p k c t ʈ
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n ɳ
Lateral ʎ l ɭ
Rhotic r ɻ
Semivowel w j

References