Wangganguru dialect
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| Wangganguru | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Northern Territory |
| Extinct | by 2003 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wgg |
| Glottolog | wang1290[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] | L27 |
Wangganguru or Wangkangurru /ˈwʌŋɡəŋˈʊəruː/[3] is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. It was a dialect of Arabana.
Wangganguru had the full range of consonants of the prototypical Australian language. Several of the nasals and laterals are allophonically prestopped.[4]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Stop | p | k | c | t̪ | t | ʈ |
| Nasal | m ~ bm | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ ~ d̪n̪ | n ~ dn | ɳ |
| Lateral | ʎ | l̪ ~ d̪l̪ | l ~ dl | ɭ | ||
| Vibrant | r ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | |||
References
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- ↑ Wangganguru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ↑ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 135
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