Wangkatjunga dialect

Wangkatjunga
Region Northwest South Australia
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog wang1288[1]
AIATSIS[2] A87*

Wangkatjunga (or Wangkajunga) is a dialect of the Western Desert dialect group of Western Australia.[3]

Phonology

Vowels

Wangkatjunga contains three contrastive vowels, which may be either short or long.[3] The chart below illustrates this:

front back
high i ii u uu
low a aa

Consonants

apico-alveolar apico-post-alveolar lamino-palatal bilabial dorso-velar
stops t rt j/tj p k
nasals n rn ny m ng
laterals l rl ly
taps rr
approximants r y w

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wangkajunga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Wangkatjunga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. 1 2 Jones, Barbara (2011). A grammar of Wangkajunga: a language of the Great Sandy Desert of north Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 9780858836488.
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