Yinggarda language
| Yinggarda | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Gascoyne coast area of Western Australia |
Native speakers | unknown (5 cited 1981)[1] |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Dialects |
? Maya
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yia |
| AIATSIS[2] | W19, W20 |
Yinggarda (Yingkarta, Inggarda) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Kartu languages of the Pama–Nyungan family. Scarcely attested Maya (Maia) may be a dialect.
Yinggarda country is around Carnarvon, on the central western coast of Western Australia, and extends inland to near Gascoyne Junction and south to around the mouth of the Wooramel River. A sketch grammar was written by Alan Dench, who has worked with some of the last speakers. The Yamaji Language Centre has been carrying out work on the Yinggarda language since 1993 and has collected materials for the eventual production of a small dictionary and a grammar.
'Yinggarda' has been spelled in a number of ways, some linguists (including Dench) writing it as 'Yingkarta'.
References
- ↑ Yinggarda reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Yinggarda at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)