Kuurn Kopan Noot language
Kuurn Kopan Noot | |
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Dhauwurd Wurrung | |
Gurnditjmara | |
Region | Victoria |
Ethnicity | Gurnditjmara people |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
gjm |
Glottolog |
warr1257 [2] |
AIATSIS[3] |
S20 Dhauwurd Wurrung, S25 Keerray-Woorroong |
Kuurn Kopan Noot, or Gurnditjmara (Kirurndit, Gu:nditj-mara), is an extinct language of Victoria (Australia). It had a number of dialects (see box at right), including Kuurn Kopan Noot proper.
Phonology
A likely phonemic inventory for the Warrnambool language is shown below.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
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Stop | p | t̪ | t | ʈ | c | k |
Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ |
Lateral | l̪ | l | ɭ | ʎ | ||
Rhotic | ɾ~r | ɽ | ||||
Approximant | j | w |
Rhotic consonants were not distinguished in older sources. It is unclear to determine whether the retroflex consonant was a glide or a flap. Both were written as r.
Although most Australian indigenous languages use three vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/, the amount of vowels are not clearly distinguished within the other sources for the Warrnambool language. There is some fluctuation between /i/ and /e/, and /u/ and /o/. Where there was a back vowel occurring before a syllable-final palatal, /o/ was used instead of /u/, to give a better idea of the more likely pronunciation (i.e. puroyn "night").[4]
References
- ↑ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxv.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Warrnambool (Kuurn Kopan Noot)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Dhauwurd Wurrung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Blake, Barry J. (2003). The Warrnambool Language: A Consolidated Account of the Aboriginal Language of the Warrnambool Area of the Western District of Victoria based on Nineteenth-Century Sources. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
External links
- Bibliography of Gunditjmara people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies