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Garadjari (Karajarri, many other spellings; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Karajarri people. The language is a member of the Marrngu subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan family. It is spoken along the coast of northwestern Australia.

Garadjari
Karajarri
Region	Western Australia
Ethnicity	Karajarri
Native speakers	41 (2016 census)^[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Marrngu Garadjari
Dialects	Najanaja (Murrkut/Murgud) Nawurtu (Naurdu) Nangu
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gbd`
Glottolog	`kara1476`
AIATSIS^[2]	`A64`
ELP	Karajarri

Name

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The name has many spelling variants, including:

Garadjari (used by A Grammar of Garadjari)
Garadjiri
Garadyari
Garadyaria
Gard'are
Karadjeri (used by Ethnologue)
Karajarri (used by the Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages and is the spelling selected by the Karajarri people for their native title claims^[3]^[4])
Karatjarri (used by Australian Languages)
Karatyarri
Karrajarra
Karrajarri

Kurajarra / Guradjara is sometimes confused with Garadjari, but it appears to have been a separate language.^[2]

Phoneme inventory

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Garadjari's phoneme inventory is typical of Australian languages, and is identical to the inventories of the other Marrngu languages. There are 17 consonant phonemes.

	Peripheral		Apical		Laminal
	Bilabial	Velar	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal
Obstruents	p	k	t	ʈ	ɟ
Nasals	m	ŋ	n	ɳ	ɲ
Laterals			l	ɭ	ʎ
Rhotics			ɾ	ɻ
Approximants	w				j

Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

References

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Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780.
Johnson, Edward (1992). Karajarri sketch grammar. University of Sydney.
Sands, Anna Kristina (1989). A Grammar of Garadjari, Western Australia.
Thieberger, Nicholas (1993). Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberley Region. Pacific Linguistics.

Notes

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^ ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

^ ^a ^b A64 Garadjari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

^ "Native title determination summary - Karajarri People (Area A) - Search determinations - National Native Title Tribunal". Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2013.

^ "Native title determination summary - Karajarri People (Area B) - Search determinations - National Native Title Tribunal". Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2013.

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