Yandruwandha language

Extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Australia

Yandruwandha
Native toAustralia
RegionSouth Australia, Queensland
EthnicityYandruwandha people, Yawarrawarrka
Extinctsince 1973?[1]
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
  • Karnic
    • Karna
      • Yandruwandha
Dialects
  • Yandruwanhdha
  • Yawarrawarrka
  • Nhirrpi
  • Parlpa-Mardramardra
  • Matja[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
ynd – Yandruwandha
yww – Yawarawarga
hrp – Nhirrpi
Glottologyand1252  Yandruwandhic
AIATSIS[1]L18
ELPYandruwandha
 Yawarrawarrka[3]
 Nhirrpi[4]

Yandruwandha is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. Yawarawarga is considered a dialect by Dixon (2002), a closely related language by Bowern (2001). It is also known as Yawarrawarrka, Yawarawarka, Yawarawarga, Yawarawarka, Jauraworka, and Jawarawarka).

The traditional language region includes Far Western Queensland around the local government area of the Shire of Diamantina extending into the Outback Communities Authority of South Australia towards Innamincka.[5]

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Dental Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive voiceless p k c t ʈ
voiced b ɡ ɟ d ɖ
trill-release ɖʳ
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n ɳ
Rhotic r
Lateral glide ʎ l ɭ
prestopped (ᵈ̪l̪) (ᵈl) (ɖɭ)
Approximant w j ɻ
  • Lateral sounds /l̪, l, ɭ/ can also be heard as prestopped [ᵈ̪l̪, ᵈl, ɖɭ] when occurring after a stressed vowel.[6]

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i u
Low a

References

  1. ^ a b L18 Yandruwandha at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxvii
  3. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Yawarrawarrka.
  4. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Nhirrpi.
  5. ^ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Yawarrawarrka". Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  6. ^ Breen 2004. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBreen2004 (help)

Further reading

  • Breen, Gavan (2015). Innamincka talk: a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. ANU Press.
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