| Mirning | |
| Also Known As: | Ngandatha |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity: | Mirning, ?Murunitja |
| Speakers: | 4 |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Ref: | aiatsis |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | Mirning languages |
| Iso3: | gmr |
| Aiatsis: | A9 |
| Glotto: | mirn1245 |
| Glottorefname: | Mirniny |
| Map: | File:Wirangu Map.jpg |
| Mapcaption: | Languages of South Australia.[1] |
Mirning (Mirniny) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia.
Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Mirning or of its sister language Ngadjunmaya.
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Plosive | p | k | (t̪) | c | t | ʈ | |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | ɳ | ||
| Rhotic | ɾ | ||||||
| Lateral | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː | ||
| Low | a aː | |||
/a/ may also range to a back vowel [ɑ].
Mirniny Sketch Grammar - Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre