Ngaygungu language
| Ngaygungu | |
|---|---|
| aka Ngȋ-koong-ō | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Queensland |
| Extinct | last attested 1938[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
| AIATSIS[1] | Y216 |
Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō[3]) is a sleeping,[4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,[3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels[3]
| ă | ā | ȃ | ĕ | ē | ĭ | ī | ȋ | ŏ | ō | oo |
each pronounced as in English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be marked[3] for length.
Consonants
[edit]Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows:[3]
| b | ch | g | j | k | m | n | ny | ng | r | t | y |
each pronounced as they would be in English.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Y216 Ngaygungu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ a b RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
- ^ a b c d e Roth, Walter Edmund (1898), Some ethnological notes on the Atherton blacks (October 1898), Cooktown: Queensland Home Secretarys Department, Office of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals
- ^ Wesley, Leonard Y. (2008), "When Is an "Extinct Language" Not Extinct?" (PDF), Susataining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: 23–34
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