| Jaminjung | |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Victoria River (Northern Territory) |
| Speakers: | 29 |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Mirndi |
| Fam2: | Yirram |
| Dia1: | Ngaliwuru |
| Iso3: | djd |
| Glotto: | djam1255 |
| Glottorefname: | Jaminjung-Ngaliwurru |
| Aiatsis: | N18 |
| Aiatsisname: | Jaminjung |
| Aiatsis2: | N19 |
| Aiatsisname2: | Ngaliwurru |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Elp2: | 5546 |
| Elpname2: | Ngaliwurru |
Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000.
Jaminjung has 4 vowels:
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i pronounced as //i// | u pronounced as //u// | ||
| Close-mid | e pronounced as //e// | |||
| Open | a pronounced as //a// |
Vowel length is not distinctive. The close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages.
Jaminjung has 18 consonants:
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p pronounced as //p// | k pronounced as //k// | j pronounced as //c// | th pronounced as //t̪// | t pronounced as //t// | rt pronounced as //ʈ // |
| Nasal | m pronounced as //m// | ng pronounced as //ŋ// | ny pronounced as //ɲ// | n pronounced as //n// | rn pronounced as //ɳ // | |
| Trill | rr pronounced as //r// | |||||
| Approximant | ly pronounced as //ʎ// | l pronounced as //l// | rl pronounced as //ɭ // | |||
| w pronounced as //w// | y pronounced as //j// | r pronounced as //ɻ // | ||||