Djadjawurrung | |
Region: | Victoria |
Ethnicity: | Dja Dja Wurrung people |
Extinct: | ? |
Familycolor: | Australian |
Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
Fam2: | Kulinic |
Fam3: | Kulin |
Fam4: | Wemba-Wemba[1] |
Iso3: | dja |
Glotto: | none |
Aiatsis: | S31.1 |
Map: | Kulin Map.PNG |
Mapcaption: | The five Kulin nations. Djadjawurrung is in the northwest in blue. |
Djadjawurrung (also Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is an Aboriginal Australian language spoken by the Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin nation of central Victoria. Djadjawurrung was spoken by 16 clans around Murchison, the central highlands region, east to Woodend, west to the Pyrenees, north to Boort and south to the Great Dividing Range.It is now extinct.[2]
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Stop | (p) pronounced as /ink/ | (t) pronounced as /ink/ | (rt) pronounced as /ink/ | (tj), (yt) pronounced as /ink/ | (k) pronounced as /ink/ | |
Nasal | (m) pronounced as /ink/ | (n) pronounced as /ink/ | (rn) pronounced as /ink/ | (ny), (yn) pronounced as /ink/ | (ng) pronounced as /ink/ | |
Lateral | (l) pronounced as /ink/ | (rl) pronounced as /ink/ | (ly), (yl) pronounced as /ink/ | |||
Rhotic | (rr) pronounced as /ink/ | (r) pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
Approximant | (w) pronounced as /ink/ | (y) pronounced as /ink/ |
There are four vowels noted: pronounced as //pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link///. They may also be phonetically written as pronounced as /[{{IPAplink|i}} {{IPAplink|ɛ}}~{{IPAplink|e}} {{IPAplink|a}} {{IPAplink|ʊ}}~{{IPAplink|u}}]/.[3] [4]