Matngele language
| Matngele | |
|---|---|
| Region | Northern Territory, Australia |
| Extinct |
by 2006 census[1] perhaps 1 reported 1973; perhaps 10 reported 1990 |
|
Eastern Daly
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
zml |
| Glottolog |
madn1237[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
N12 |
Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory.
Classification
Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990).[1]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | u | |
| Low | a |
Consonants
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Stop | Voiceless | p | k | c | t | |
| Voiced | b | a | ɟ | d | ||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | ||
| Lateral | ʎ | l | ||||
| Rhotic | ɲ | ɻ | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
Grammar
Matngele has only five simple verbs. These must be combined with coverbs in order to form complex verbs.
References
- 1 2 3 Matngele at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Madngele". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Zandvoort, F. B. (1999). A grammar of Matngele. BA honours sub-thesis. Armidale: University of New England.
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