Mangarla language
Appearance
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Mangarla | |
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Mangala | |
Native to | Australien |
Region | Western Australia |
Ethnicity | Mangala people |
Native speakers | 68 (2016 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mem |
Glottolog | mang1383 |
AIATSIS[2] | A65 |
ELP | Mangala |
![]() Mangarla is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Mangarla, also spelt Mangala, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It is spoken by the Mangarla people of the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert, inland from the coast.
Phoneme Inventory
[edit]Mangala's phoneme inventory is typical of Australian languages, and is identical to the inventories of the other Marrngu languages. There are 17 consonant phonemes.
Peripheral | Apical | Laminal | |||
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Bilabial | Velar | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | |
Obstruents | p | k | t | ʈ | ɟ |
Nasals | m | ŋ | n | ɳ | ɲ |
Laterals | l | ɭ | ʎ | ||
Rhotics | ɾ | ɻ | |||
Approximants | w | j |
/ɾ/ may also occasionally be heard as a trill [r].
Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.
Front | Zurück | |
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Hoch | i | u |
Niedrig | a |
/i, u, a/ in unstressed syllables may be heard as [ɪ, ʊ, ə].
References
[edit]- ^ ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ A65 Mangarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Agnew, Brigitte Louise. 2020. The core of Mangarla grammar. University of Melbourne.