Garadjari | |
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Karajarri | |
Region | Western Australia |
Ethnicity | Karajarri |
Native speakers | 41 (2016 census)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gbd |
Glottolog | kara1476 |
AIATSIS[2] | A64 |
ELP | Karajarri |
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.
The name has many spelling variants, including:
Kurajarra / Guradjara is sometimes confused with Garadjari, but it appears to have been a separate language.[2]
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 | |||
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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 | |
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High | i | u |
Low | a |
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