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1 Phonology  


1.1  Consonants  




1.2  Vowels  






2 Classification  




3 References  




4 External links  













Umbugarla language






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Umbugarla
Mbukarla
RegionNorthern Territory
Extinctca. 2000; with the death of Butcher Knight

Language family

Darwin

  • Umbugarlic
    • Umbugarla

Language codes
ISO 639-3umr
Glottologumbu1235
AIATSIS[1]N43
ELPUmbugarla
  historic distribution of Umbugarla

UmbugarlaorMbukarla is a possible Australian language isolate once spoken by three people in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, in 1981, and is now extinct.

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive b ɡ ɟ d ɖ
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n ɳ
Lateral ʎ l ɭ
Rhotic ɽ
Approximant w j ɹ

Vowels[edit]

Front Back
High i iː u uː
Mid ɛ ɔ
Low a aː
Phoneme Allophones
/a/ [ä], [äː], [æ], [ɛ], [ə], [ɒ], [o]
/ɛ/ [ɛ], [ɛː]
/i/ [i], [iː], [ɨ], [ʉ], [ə], [eː]
/u/ [u], [uː], [o], [oː], [ʉ], [ə]
/uː/ [uː], [oː]

Classification[edit]

Umbugarla was once considered a language isolate (together with Ngurmbur as a dialect), but Mark Harvey has made a case for it being part of a family of Darwin Region languages.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ N43 Umbugarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • ^ Davies, Jennifer (1989). Umbugarla: A Sketch Grammar. University of Melbourne.
  • ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

    • External links[edit]

    Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Umbugarla word list


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