Ngarigo language

Ngarigo
	Jaitmathang
	Southern Inland Yuin
Region	New South Wales & ACT, Australia
Ethnicity	Ngarigo, Ngambri = Walgalu, Jaitmatang
Extinct	by 2006[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Yuin–Kuric Yuin Ngarigo; ; ;
Dialects	Yaithmathang; Walgalu (Wolgal);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; xni – Ngarigo; xjt – Jaitmathang
Glottolog	sout2770[2]
AIATSIS[3]	S46

Ngarigo (Ngarigu) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngarigo people.

Yaithmathang (Jaitmathang), also known as Gundungerre, was a dialect.[3]

Phonology

Consonant sounds
	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Stop	b	d̪	d	ɖ	ɟ	k
Nasal	m		n		ɲ	ŋ
Lateral			l		ʎ
Rhotic			ɾ~r
Approximant	w				j

Vowels given are /a i u/.[4]

Ngarigo at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
Jaitmathang at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Southern Inland Yuin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
S46 Ngarigo at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Koch, Harold (2016). Documentary sources on the Ngarigu language: the value of a single recording.

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