Wambaya language
| Wambaya | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory |
| Ethnicity | Binbinga Indigenous Australians |
Native speakers | 20 (2005) to 88 (2006 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
Wambaya
Gudanji
Binbinka
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: wmb – Wambaya nji – Gudanji |
| Glottolog |
guda1245[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
C19 Wambaya, C26 Gurdanji, N138 Binbinga |
Wambaya is a Non-Pama-Nyungan West Barkly Australian language of the Mirndi language group[3] that is spoken in the Barkly Tableland of the Northern Territory, Australia.[4] Wambaya and the other members of the West Barkly languages are somewhat unique in that they are suffixing languages, unlike most Non-Pama-Nyungan languages which are prefixing.[3]
The language was reported to have 12 speakers in 1981, and some reports indicate that the language went extinct as a first language.[5] However, in the 2011 Australian census 56 people stated that they speak Wambaya at home.[6] That number increased to 89 by 2013 (http://www.ethnologue.com/language/wmb).
Nordlinger believes that Wambaya, Gudanji and Binbinka are dialects of one language.[7]
References
- 1 2 Wambaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gudanji–Binbinga–Wambaya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 1 2 Nordlinger, Rachel. (1998), A Grammar Of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia), p. 1.
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Bender, Emily M. (2008), Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya, p. 2
- ↑ http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/SSC70177?opendocument&navpos=220
- ↑ Nordlinger, Rachel. (1998), A Grammar Of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia), p. 3.
External links
- Bibliography of Binbinga people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Bibliography of Gudanji people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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