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 in Western Australia.[3] It is spoken in the vicinity of Christmas Creek and Fitzroy Crossing. The use of the name 'Wangkatjunga' to identify this language group only appears to have emerged in the 1970s.[4]

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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wangkajunga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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.
  4. ↑ "Wangkatjunga Language Information".
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