Djadjawurrung language
Djadjawurrung | |
---|---|
Region | Victoria |
Ethnicity | Dja Dja Wurrung people |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
dja |
Glottolog | None |
AIATSIS[2] |
S31.1 |
The five Kulin nations. Djadjawurrung is in the northwest in blue. |
Djadjawurrung (also Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is one of the extinct Indigenous Australian languages spoken by the Jaara also known as Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria. Djadjawurrung was spoken by 16 clans around Murchison, the central highlands region, east to Kyneton, west to the Pyrenees, north to Boort and south to the Great Dividing Range.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
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Stop | ⟨p⟩ p | ⟨t⟩ t | ⟨rt⟩ ʈ | ⟨tj⟩, ⟨yt⟩ c [lower-alpha 1] | ⟨k⟩ k |
Nasal | ⟨m⟩ m | ⟨n⟩ n | ⟨rn⟩ ɳ | ⟨ny⟩, ⟨yn⟩ ɲ [lower-alpha 1] | ⟨ng⟩ ŋ |
Lateral | ⟨l⟩ l | ⟨rl⟩ ɭ | ⟨ly⟩, ⟨yl⟩ ʎ [lower-alpha 1] | ||
Rhotic | ⟨rr⟩ r | ⟨r⟩ ɽ [lower-alpha 2] | |||
Approximant | ⟨w⟩ w | ⟨y⟩ j |
Vowels
There are four vowels noted: /i e a u/. They may be also be phonetically written as /i ɛ~e a ʊ~u/.[3][4]
References
- ↑ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
- ↑ Djadjawurrung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Blake, Barry J. "Dialects of Western Kulin, Western Victoria Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung, Djadjawurrung" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ↑ Blake, Barry. 2016
External links
- Bibliography of Djadja Wurrung people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Dialects of Western Kulin, Western Victoria Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung, Djadjawurrung
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