Ngardi language
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| 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) groups Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa group, but admits that this is based on limited data. McConvell and Laughren (2004) show that it is actually in Ngumbin, a closely related group, and this is followed in Honeyman (2005). However, Bowern (2011) lists 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ngardi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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- ↑ 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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- McConvell and Laughren (2004) "The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup". In Claire Bowern & Harold Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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