Yandruwandha is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. Yawarawarga is considered a dialect by Dixon (2002), a closely related language by Bowern (2001). It is also known as Yawarrawarrka, Yawarawarka, Yawarawarga, Yawarawarka, Jauraworka, and Jawarawarka).
Yandruwandha | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | South Australia, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Yandruwandha people, Yawarrawarrka |
Extinct | since 1973?[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:ynd – Yandruwandhayww – Yawarawargahrp – Nhirrpi |
Glottolog | yand1252 Yandruwandhic |
AIATSIS[1] | L18 |
ELP | Yandruwandha |
Yawarrawarrka[3] | |
Nhirrpi[4] |
The traditional language region includes Far Western Queensland around the local government area of the Shire of Diamantina extending into the Outback Communities Authority of South Australia towards Innamincka.[5]
Phonology
editConsonants
editPeripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
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Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
Plosive | voiceless | p | k | t̪ | c | t | ʈ |
voiced | b | ɡ | d̪ | ɟ | d | ɖ | |
trill-release | dʳ | ɖʳ | |||||
Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ | |
Rhotic | r | ||||||
Lateral | glide | l̪ | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
prestopped | (ᵈ̪l̪) | (ᵈl) | (ɖɭ) | ||||
Approximant | w | j | ɻ |
- Lateral sounds /l̪, l, ɭ/ can also be heard as prestopped [ᵈ̪l̪, ᵈl, ɖɭ] when occurring after a stressed vowel.[6]
Vowels
editFront | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Low | a aː |
References
edit- ^ a b L18 Yandruwandha at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxvii
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Yawarrawarrka.
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Nhirrpi.
- ^ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Yawarrawarrka". Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ Breen 2015.
Work cited
edit- Breen, Gavan (2015). Innamincka talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. ANU Press. doi:10.26530/OAPEN_611013. hdl:20.500.12657/32422. ISBN 978-1-921934-19-3.