Wangkumara language

Wangkumara
Wongkumara
Region Queensland
Extinct probably by 2005[1]
Dialects
  • Wangkumara
  • Punthamara (Bundhamara)[2]
  • Ngandangara (Yarumarra, Eromarra)[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
xpt – Punthamara
xwk – Wangkumara
eaa – Karenggapa
ntg – Ngantangarra
Glottolog punt1240  Punthamara[4]
wong1246  Wongkumara[5]
yaru1254  Yarumarra[6]
AIATSIS[1] L25 Wangkumara, L15 Karenggapa, L26 Punthamara, L30 Ngandangara

Wangkumara or Wanggumara is an Australian Aboriginal language of the widespread Pama–Nyungan family. It is sometimes classified as a dialect of the Ngura language. In 1981 it was still spoken by 4 members of the Wangkumara people around Cooper Creek, the Thomson River and the Warry Warry Creek, the town of Eromanga and the Nuccundra[7] in Queensland, Australia; today it might be already extinct.

Dixon (2002) considers Punthamara to be a dialect, Bowern (2001) as very close. Bowern also says that Ngandangara appears to have been "very close", though data is too poor for a proper classification.[3] Karenggapa is either a dialect or an alternative name.[8]

Wangkumara is notable for being a language with a tripartite verbal alignment.

References

  1. 1 2 Wangkumara at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxvii
  3. 1 2 Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 2012-05-19.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Punthamara". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wongkumara". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  6. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yarumarra". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  7. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography (2006-00-00). "Dixon, Lorna Rose (1917? - 1976)". Retrieved 2007-07-23. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ↑


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