Wakka Wakka language

Not to be confused with Wagawaga language (New Guinea).

The Wakka Wakka language, also spelt Waga, or Wakawaka, is an extinct Pama–Nyungan language formerly spoken by the Wakka Wakka people, an Aboriginal Australian nation near Brisbane, Australia.^[3] Kaiabara/Gayabara, Nguwera/Ngoera, and Buyibara may be varieties or alternative names.

Wakka Wakka
Waga
Wakawaka
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Wakka Wakka, Djakunda, Dalla (?Wulili, ?Baruŋgam)
Extinct	1965
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Waka–Kabic Miyan Wakka Wakka
Dialects	Waga-Waga Duungidjawu Dala Djakunda ?Wuli-Wuli ?Barunggam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wkw
Glottolog	waka1274
AIATSIS[1]	E28
ELP	Waka-Waka
	Duungidjawu[2]
Map of traditional lands of Aboriginal Australians around Brisbane; Wakka Wakka in   red.

Phonology

Consonants

	Peripheral		Laminal	Apical
	Labial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	b	ɡ	ɟ	d
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n
Rhotic				r
Lateral				l
Approximant	w		j		ɻ

• /l/ may occasionally be velarized as [ɫ].
• /l/ may also exist in the sequence /-lj-/, however; it is not realized as a palatal lateral sound [ʎ].

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	ɛ ɛː		ɔ ɔː
Open		a aː

References

1. E28 Wakka Wakka at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. Endangered Languages Project data for Duungidjawu.
3. Waka Waka - ATSIDA

• Kite, Suzanne; Wurm, Stephen (2004). The Duungidjawu Language of the Southeast Queensland: Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-550-4.