Ngardi language

Ngardi
Region Northern Territory and Western Australia
Native speakers
10 (2005) to 14 (2006 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rxd
Glottolog ngar1288[2]
AIATSIS[1] A69

Ngardi (Ngarti) or Ngardilj is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.

Classication

Capell (1962) considered Ngardi, Warlpiri, and Warlmanpa to be dialects of a single language. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) grouped Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa group, but admitted that this was based on limited data. McConvell and Laughren (2004) showed that it was in Ngumbin, a closely related group, and this was followed in Honeyman (2005). However, Bowern (2011) listed it as a more distant Wati language.[3]

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

  1. 1 2 Ngardi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngardi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Bowern, Claire. 2011 "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)


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