Ngarinyin language

Ngarinyin
Region	Western Australia
Native speakers	56 Ungarinyin (2006 census)[1] plus 2 Andajin (2009)[1]
Language family	Worrorran Ngarinyin
Dialects	Ungarinjin Guwidj (Orla) Waladja Ngarnawu Andadjin Munumburru Wolyamidi Waladjangarri
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: ung – Ngarinyin ajn – Andajin
Glottolog	ngar1284[2]
AIATSIS[1]	K18 Ungarinyin, K23 Andajin, K25 Munumburu, K26 Wolyamidi

The Ngarinyin language (Ungarinjin), or Eastern Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.

Classification

Ngarinyin is one of the Worrorran languages. It is a dialect cluster, and may be considered more than a single language; Bowern (2011) lists Ngarinyin, Andajin, and Worla.^[3]

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i iː	u uː
Mid	e	o
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	m
Rhotic				ɲ	ɻ
Semivowel	w		j

References

1. Ungarinyin at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngarinyin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

• Coate, H. H. J.; Elkin, A. P. (1974). Ngarinjin-English Dictionary. Sydney: Oceania Linguistic Monographs.
• Coate, H. H. J.; Oates, Lynette (1970). A Grammar of Ngarinjin. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Rumsey, A. (1982). An intra-sentence grammar of Ungarinjin, north-western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.