Ngadjunmaya | |
States: | Australia |
Region: | Goldfields-Esperance; Eyre’s Sand Patch, Goddard Creek to Port Malcolm, to Fraser Range, to Naretha and Point Culver, at Mount Andres, Russell Range, Balladonia, and Norseman |
Ethnicity: | Ngadjunmaia, ?Murunitja |
Speakers: | "very few speakers" (2008); "probably recently extinct" |
Date: | 2007 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Australian |
Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
Fam2: | Mirning |
Iso3: | nju |
Glotto: | ngad1258 |
Glottorefname: | Ngadjunmaya |
Aiatsis: | A3 |
Ngadjunmaya correctly known as Ngadjumaya is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region.
Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjumaya or of Mirning.
Three vowels with length are present:
Front | Back | ||
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High | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |
Low | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ |
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
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Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |