Wangganguru dialect

Wangganguru
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Extinct	by 2003
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Karnic Arabana Wangganguru
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wgg
Glottolog	wang1290[1]
AIATSIS[2]	L27

Wangganguru or Wangkangurru /ˈwʌŋɡəŋˈʊəruː/^[3] is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. It was a dialect of Arabana.

Wangganguru had the full range of consonants of the prototypical Australian language. Several of the nasals and laterals are allophonically prestopped.^[4]

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	c	t̪	t	ʈ
Nasal	m ~ bm	ŋ	ɲ	n̪ ~ d̪n̪	n ~ dn	ɳ
Lateral			ʎ	l̪ ~ d̪l̪	l ~ dl	ɭ
Vibrant					r  ɾ
Approximant	w		j		ɻ

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wangganguru". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Wangganguru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
4. Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 135