Mantharta language

Mantharta
Region	Western Australia
Native speakers	2 Dhargari (2005)[1] (1 cited 2007)[2]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Kanyara–Mantharta Mantharta
Dialects	Dhargari Warriyangga Dhiin Jiwarli
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]

• Tharrgari (Tharrkari, Dhargari), still spoken ca. 2005
• Warriyangka (Wadiwangga), still spoken ca. 1973
• Thiin, extinct by 2004
• Jiwarli (Tjiwarli), extinct by 2004

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

See Jiwarli dialect for details.

References

1. 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