Jaminjung language

Mirndi language of Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000.[4][1]

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Jaminjung
Native toAustralia
RegionVictoria River (Northern Territory)
Native speakers
29 (2016)[1]
Mirndi
Dialects
  • Ngaliwuru
Language codes
ISO 639-3djd
Glottologdjam1255
AIATSIS[2]N18 Jaminjung, N19 Ngaliwurru
ELPJaminjung
 Ngaliwurru[3]
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In 1971, Frances Kofod and others published a grammar of the Ngaliwuru language,[5] while in 2011 a book of Jaminjung & Ngaliwuru names and uses of plants & animals was published.[6]

Phonology

Vowels

Jaminjung has 4 vowels:[7]

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Front Central Back
Close i /i/ u /u/
Close-mid e /e/
Open a /a/
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Vowel length is not distinctive. The close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages.[7]

Consonants

Jaminjung has 18 consonants:[7]

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Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive p /p/ k /k/ j /c/ th /t̪/ t /t/ rt /
Nasal m /m/ ng /ŋ/ ny /ɲ/ n /n/ rn /
Trill rr /r/
Approximant ly /ʎ/ l /l/ rl /
w /w/ y /j/ r /
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