Wanggamala language

Not to be confused with Wanggumara language.
Wanggamala
Wangka-Yutjurru
Wangga-Manha
Native to Australia
Region Northern Territory
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Wangka-yutjuru
Wankamanha (Tharlimanha, Wangga-Manha)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
wnm  Wanggamanha
wky  Wangkayutyuru
lnw  Lanima
Glottolog wang1289  (Wanggamala)[1]
AIATSIS[2] G5

Wanggamala, also known as Wangka-Yutjurru, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family.[3]

Lanima, Yurlayurlanya (Ulaolinya), and Rangwa (Runga-Rungawa) are not dialects, but clans speaking the Wangkamanha dialect.[4]

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wanggamala". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Wanggamala at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 2012-05-19.


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