Ngardi language

Not to be confused with Ngardilpa (linguistics).
Ngardi
Region Northern Territory and Western Australia
Native speakers
10 (2005) to 14 (2006 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rxd
Glottolog ngar1288[2]
AIATSIS[1] A69

Ngardi (Ngarti) or Ngardilj is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.

Classication

Capell (1962) considered Ngardi, Warlpiri, and Warlmanpa to be dialects of a single language. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) groups Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa group, but admits that this is based on limited data. McConvell and Laughren (2004) show that it is actually in Ngumbin, a closely related group, and this is followed in Honeyman (2005). However, Bowern (2011) lists it as a more distant Wati language.[3]

Phonology

Vowels

Front Back
High i u
Low a

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. 1 2 Ngardi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngardi". 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)


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