| Garadjari | |
| Also Known As: | Karajarri |
| Region: | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity: | Karajarri |
| Speakers: | 41 |
| Date: | 2016 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | Marrngu |
| Dia1: | Najanaja (Murrkut/Murgud) |
| Dia2: | Nawurtu (Naurdu) |
| Dia3: | Nangu |
| Iso3: | gbd |
| Glotto: | kara1476 |
| Glottorefname: | Karadjeri |
| Aiatsis: | A64 |
| Script: | Latin |
Garadjari (Karajarri, many other spellings; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Karajarri people. The language is a member of the Marrngu subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan family. It is spoken along the coast of northwestern Australia.
The name has many spelling variants, including:
Kurajarra / Guradjara is sometimes confused with Garadjari, but it appears to have been a separate language.
Garadjari's phoneme inventory is typical of Australian languages, and is identical to the inventories of the other Marrngu languages. There are 17 consonant phonemes.
| Peripheral | Apical | Laminal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | ||
| Obstruents | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Nasals | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Laterals | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Rhotics | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Approximants | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | ||