Gurdjar language

Gurdjar
Kurtjar
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers
 1 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Kurtjar (Gunggara)
  • Rip (Ngarap, Areba)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
gdj – Gurdjar
aea – Areba
Glottolog ribg1235[2]
AIATSIS[3] G33 Kurtjar, Y107 Areba

Gurdjar (Kurtjar) is a Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. There are two dialects, Gurdjar proper (Gunggara), and Rip (Ngarap, Areba).[4] Kunggara is another name for one or the other.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar
Stop p t̪ t c k
Nasal m n̪ n ɲ ŋ
Fricative β ð ɣ
Trill r
Flap ɾ ɻ~ɽ
Approximant w l j

Vowels

Front Front rounded Central Back
Non-low i iː ø øː ɨ ɨː u uː
Low a aː

Kurtjar also has a diphthong /ua/.

References

  1. ↑ Gurdjar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Areba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rib–Gurdjar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Kurtjar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  4. ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
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