Malgana language

Malgana
Malgana
Region	Shark Bay area of Western Australia
Ethnicity	Malgana people
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Kartu Malgana; ;
Dialects	Kakurtu (riverside Malgana); Ngulartu (bush Malgana);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vml
Glottolog	malg1242
AIATSIS	W18
ELP	Malkana

Malgana is the Aboriginal Australian language of the Malgana people. It is one of the Kartu languages of the Pama–Nyungan family of languages.

Malgana country is the area around Shark Bay in Western Australia. In particular it includes the Peron and Edel Land Peninsulas as well as some of the adjoining land. The Irra Wangga Language Centre^[2] (having taken over from the Yamaji Language Centre) has been carrying out work on the Malgana language since 1995 and has produced an illustrated wordlist as well as grammatical materials and a dictionary (the latter two unpublished).

'Buluguda', 'Damala', and 'Watjanti' were likely Malgana-speaking locations or social groupings, rather than dialects.

References

^ W18 Malgana at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ "Irra Wangga Language Centre - Bundiyarra". Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

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[AIATSIS-1] W18 Malgana at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[2] "Irra Wangga Language Centre - Bundiyarra". Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

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