Wangganguru dialect

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

Wangganguru or Wangkangurru /ˈwʌŋɡəŋˈʊər/[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 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


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