Ngardi language
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Not to be confused with Ngardilpa (linguistics).
| Ngardi | ||||
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| Spoken in | Northern Territory and Western Australia | |||
| Native speakers | 80–100 with varying degrees of fluency (date missing) | |||
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | – | |||
| linguist List | 08r | |||
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Ngardi or Ngardilj is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.
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[edit] 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. Honeyman (2005) classified it as Ngumbin.
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Low | a | |
[edit] 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 | |||
[edit] References
- Capell, A. (1962). Some linguistic types in Australia. Sydney: Oceania Publications.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780.
- Honeyman, Tom (2005). Topic and Focus in Ngardi. thesis. University of Sydney. http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/139.
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