| Nakkara | |
| Region: | Northern Territory |
| Ethnicity: | Nagara people |
| Speakers: | 55 |
| Date: | 2021 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Macro-Gunwinyguan |
| Fam2: | Maningrida |
| Iso3: | nck |
| Glotto: | naka1260 |
| Glottorefname: | Nakara |
| Aiatsis: | N80 |
Nakkara (Na-kara) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Nagara people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It is also spelled Nakara or Nagara and also called Kokori.
| Apical | Laminal | Dorsal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |||
| Stop | b | d | ɖ | ɟ | g | |
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Lateral | l | ɭ | ||||
| Rhotic | r/ɾ | ɽ | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j |
Stops have both voiced and voiceless allophones, depending on their position in the word. Furthermore, a stop length variation is present, which is only contrastive in morpheme-medial positions. This can be interpreted as either gemination, or as evidence for the existence of two separate stop series, with a suprasegmental hypothesis being mostly ruled out.
The tapped and trilled allophones of /r/ are in free variation.
| Close | i | u | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a |