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Ngardi language |
Not to be confused with Ngardilpa (linguistics).
| Ngardi | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Northern Territory and Western Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 80–100 with varying degrees of fluency | |
| Language family: | Pama-Nyungan Ngardi |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ngardi 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) groups Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa subgroup, but admits that this is based on limited data.
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
- Capell, A. (1962). Some linguistic types in Australia. Sydney: Oceania Publications.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Honeyman, Tom (2005). Topic and Focus in Ngardi, thesis, University of Sydney.
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