| Mangarla | |
| Also Known As: | Mangala |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity: | Mangala people |
| Speakers: | 68 |
| Date: | 2016 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | Marrngu |
| Dia1: | Juwarliny |
| Iso3: | mem |
| Glotto: | mang1383 |
| Glottorefname: | Mangala |
| Aiatsis: | A65 |
| Map: | Lang Status 20-CR.svg |
Mangarla, also spelt Mangala, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It is spoken by the Mangarla people of the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert, inland from the coast.
Mangala'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/ | ||||
/ɾ/ may also occasionally be heard as a trill [r].
Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
Agnew, Brigitte Louise. 2020. The core of Mangarla grammar. University of Melbourne.