Mantharta language

Mantharta
Region Western Australia
Native speakers
2 Dhargari (2005)[1]
(1 cited 2007)[2]
Dialects
Dhargari
Warriyangga
Dhiin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
dhr  Dhargari
wri  Warriyangga
iin  Thiin
dze  Djiwarli
Glottolog mant1266[3]
AIATSIS[1] W21 Tharrkari, W22 Warriyangka, W25 Thiin, W28 Jiwarli

Mantharta languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan).

Mantharta is a possibly extinct dialect cluster spoken in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. The four varieties were distinct but largely mutually intelligible. These were:[4][5]

The name mantharta comes from the word for 'man' in all four varieties.

See Jiwarli dialect for details.

References

  1. 1 2 Tharrkari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. Dhargari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mantharta". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxviii.
  5. Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method


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