| Mangarla | |
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| Mangala | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Mangala people |
Native speakers | 68 (2016 census)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mem |
| Glottolog | mang1383 |
| AIATSIS[2] | A65 |
| ELP | Mangala |
Mangarla is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Mangarla, also spelt Mangala, is a Pama–Nyungan languageofWestern Australia. It is spoken by the Mangarla people of the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert, inland from the coast.
Mangala'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 | |||
/ɾ/ may also occasionally be heard as a trill [r].
Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Low | a | |
/i, u, a/ in unstressed syllables may be heard as [ɪ, ʊ, ə].
Agnew, Brigitte Louise. 2020. The core of Mangarla grammar. University of Melbourne.
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