Kungkari language should not be confused with Gunggari language.
| Kungkari | |
| Also Known As: | Kuungkari of Barcoo River |
| States: | Australia |
| Extinct: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | (unclassified, possibly Karnic) |
| Iso3: | lku |
| Aiatsis: | L38 |
| Glotto: | kuun1236 |
| Glottorefname: | Kuungkari of Barcoo River |
Kungkari (also Gunggari, Koonkerri, Kuungkari) is an extinct and unclassified Australian Aboriginal language. The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.
Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.
Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language.[1]
Wafer and Lissarrague (2008)[2] report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990)[3] is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.[1]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Plosive | p | k | t̪ | c | t | ʈ | |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ | |
| Rhotic | r | ||||||
| Lateral | (l̪) | ʎ | l | ɭ | |||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u (uː) | ||
| Low | a aː |