Wangkatjunga dialect
Wangkatjunga | |
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Region | Northwest South Australia |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog |
wang1288 [1] |
AIATSIS[2] |
A87* |
Wangkatjunga (or Wangkajunga) is a dialect of the Western Desert dialect group of Western Australia.[3]
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
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wangkajunga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Wangkatjunga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- 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.
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