Ngarinyin language
| Ngarinyin | |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Australia |
Native speakers |
56 Ungarinyin (2006 census)[1] plus 2 Andajin (2009)[1] |
|
Worrorran
| |
| Dialects |
Ungarinjin
Guwidj (Orla)
Waladja
Ngarnawu
Andadjin
Munumburru
Wolyamidi
Waladjangarri
|
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: ung – Ngarinyin ajn – Andajin |
| Glottolog |
ngar1284[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
K18 Ungarinyin, K23 Andajin, K25 Munumburu, K26 Wolyamidi |
The Ngarinyin language (Ungarinjin), or Eastern Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.
Classification
Ngarinyin is one of the Worrorran languages. It is a dialect cluster, and may be considered more than a single language; Bowern (2011) lists Ngarinyin, Andajin, and Worla.[3]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a aː | |
Consonants
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Stop | p | k | c | t | ʈ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Lateral | ʎ | l | m | ||
| Rhotic | ɲ | ɻ | |||
| Semivowel | w | j | |||
References
- 1 2 3 Ungarinyin at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngarinyin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
- Coate, H. H. J.; Elkin, A. P. (1974). Ngarinjin-English Dictionary. Sydney: Oceania Linguistic Monographs.
- Coate, H. H. J.; Oates, Lynette (1970). A Grammar of Ngarinjin. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Rumsey, A. (1982). An intra-sentence grammar of Ungarinjin, north-western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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