Dhuwal language: Difference between revisions

'''Dhuwal''' (also '''Dual''', '''Duala''') is one of the [[Yolŋu languages]] spoken by [[Aboriginal Australians]] in the [[Northern Territory]], Australia. Although all Yolŋu languages are [[mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]] to some extent, Dhuwal represents a distinct [[dialect continuum]] of eight separate varieties. In 2019, Djambarrpuyŋu became the first indigenous language to be spoken in an Australian parliament, when Yolŋu man and member of the [[Northern Territory Legislative Assembly]] [[Yingiya Mark Guyula|Yingiya Guyula]] gave a speech in his native tongue.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-07-01 |title=Yingiya Mark Guyula makes history, addressing NT Parliament in language |website=National Indigenous Times |url=https://nit.com.au/yingiya-mark-guyula-makes-history-addressing-nt-parliament-in-language/ |access-date=2023-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701133216/https://nit.com.au/yingiya-mark-guyula-makes-history-addressing-nt-parliament-in-language/ |archive-date=1 July 2022 }}</ref>

! colspan="2" |[[Glidelateral consonant|GlideLateral]]

| {{IPA link|ɻl}}

! colspan="2" |[[lateralGlide consonant|LateralGlide]]

| {{IPA link|lɻ}}

Vowel length is contrastive in first syllable only.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Heath |first=Jeffrey |title=Dhuwal (Arnhem Land) texts on kinship and other subjects, with grammatical sketch and dictionary |year=1980 |locationpublisher=University of Sydney |series=Oceania Linguistics Monographs, |volume=23 |hdl=2027.42/117643 |hdl-access=free |page=4}}</ref><ref name="Walker&Zorc1981">{{Cite journal| volume = 5| pages = 109–134| last1 = Walker | first1 = Alan| |last2 = Zorc| |first2 = David R.| |title = Austronesian loanwords in Yolngu-Matha of northeast Arnhem Land| |journal = Aboriginal History |volume = 5 |issue=1–2 |pages = 109–134 |date = 1981 |jstor=24045706}}</ref>

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! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | [[Pitjantjatjara dialect]] of the [[Western Desert language]]

! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | [[Wajarri language|Wajarri]]

! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | [[Yolŋu languages]]

| ''''{{grapheme|[[eng (letter)|ŋ]]''''}} represents the [[velar nasal]] (borrowed from the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]])