Gaagudju language

Gaagudju
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Gaagudju, Watta
Extinct	May 2002, with the death of Big Bill Neidjie
Language family	Macro-Gunwinyguan? Gaagudju;
Dialects	Wada;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gbu
Glottolog	gaga1251[1]
AIATSIS[2]	N50
	; Gaagudju

Gaagudju (also spelt Gagadu, Gaguju, and Kakadu) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Arnhem Land in northern Australia, in the environs of Kakadu National Park. Its last speaker, Big Bill Neidjie, died on 23 May 2002.

Classification

Gaagudju has traditionally been classified with the Gunwinyguan languages. However, in 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes Gaagudju.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i iː	u uː
Mid	e eː	o oː
Low	a aː

Consonants

	Peripheral		Laminal	Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n	ɳ
Lateral			ʎ	l	ɺ̢
Rhotic				r	ɻ
Semivowel	w		j

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gaagudju". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
N50 Gaagudju at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Harvey, Mark (2002). A Grammar of Gaagudju. Walter de Gruyter.

External links

AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gaagudju". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[AIATSIS-2] N50 Gaagudju at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies