Ngkoth language
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| Ngkoth | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Australia | |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland | |
| Language extinction | Unknown | |
| Language family | Pama-Nyungan | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | aus | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ngkoth is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Ngkoth people. It is unknown when it went extinct.[1]
Contents |
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | Rounded | |
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ø | o |
| Near-open | æ | ||
| Open | a | ||
[edit] Consonants
Ngkoth has 17 consonants found in native words, and three consonants found only in loanwords:
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Plain | p | t | c | k | ʔ | ||
| Dental | t̪ | |||||||
| Nasal | Plain | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Dental | n̪ | |||||||
| Fricative | β | ð | ɣ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡r | |||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Approximant | l | ɻ | j | w | ||||
/t͡r/ is a trilled affricate.
/β, ð, ʔ/ are the consonants only found in loanwords.
[edit] References
- ^ Ernst Kausen (2005). Australische Sprachen. http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/klassifikationen/Australisch.doc.
- ^ Hale, Kenneth L. (1976). "Phonological developments in particular Northern Paman languages". Languages of Cape York. pp. 7–40.
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