Wangkatjunga dialect
| Wangkatjunga | |
|---|---|
| Region | Northwest South Australia |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog |
wang1288[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] |
A87* |
Wangkatjunga (or Wangkajunga) is a dialect of the Western Desert dialect group in Western Australia.[3] It is spoken in the vicinity of Christmas Creek and Fitzroy Crossing. The use of the name 'Wangkatjunga' to identify this language group only appears to have emerged in the 1970s.[4]
Phonology
Vowels
Wangkatjunga contains three contrastive vowels, which may be either short or long.[3] The chart below illustrates this:
| front | back | ||
| high | i ii | u uu | |
| low | a aa |
Consonants
| apico-alveolar | apico-post-alveolar | lamino-palatal | bilabial | dorso-velar | |
| stops | t | rt | j/tj | p | k |
| nasals | n | rn | ny | m | ng |
| laterals | l | rl | ly | ||
| taps | rr | ||||
| approximants | r | y | w |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wangkajunga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Wangkatjunga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- 1 2 Jones, Barbara (2011). A grammar of Wangkajunga: a language of the Great Sandy Desert of north Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 9780858836488.
- ↑ "Wangkatjunga Language Information".
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