Wangkangurru or Wangganguru /ˈwʌŋɡəŋˈʊəruː/[3] is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. It was a dialect of Arabana spoken by the Wangkangurru people.
| Wangkangurru | |
|---|---|
| Wangganguru | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | South Australia |
| Ethnicity | Wangkangurru |
Native speakers | 3, all female (2016 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wgg |
| Glottolog | wang1290 |
| AIATSIS[2] | L27 |
| ELP | Wangganguru |
Wangganguru had the full range of consonants of the prototypical Australian language. Several of the nasals and laterals were allophonically prestopped.[4]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Stop | p | k | c | t̪ | t | ʈ |
| Nasal | m ~ bm | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ ~ d̪n̪ | n ~ dn | ɳ |
| Lateral | ʎ | l̪ ~ d̪l̪ | l ~ dl | ɭ | ||
| Vibrant | r ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | |||
References
edit- ^ Wangkangurru at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ L27 Wangkangurru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 135
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