Worimi language

Worimi
Gadhang
Lower North Coast language
Region New South Wales
Ethnicity Worimi
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Gadjang (Kattang, Katthang, Gathang)
Worimi (Warimi)
Birbay (Birrpayi)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kdainclusive code
Individual code:
xbj  Birrpayi
Glottolog wori1245  (Worimi)[2]
AIATSIS[3] E67*

Worimi, or Gadjang (also spelt Kattang, Kutthung, Gadhang, Gadang, Gathang) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is the traditional language of the Worimi people, whose descendants now speak English.

Classification

Worimi is most closely related to Awabakal, in the Yuin–Kuric group of Pama–Nyungan.

Bowern (2011) considers Gadjang, Worimi, and Birrpayi to be separate languages.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Back
High ɪ iː ʊ uː
Low ə aː

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Stop Voiceless p k c t ʈ
Voiced b ɡ ɟ d
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n
Lateral l m
Flap ɲ ɽ
Approximant w j ɻ

References

  1. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Worimi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Worimi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

External links

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