Jaminjung language
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Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000.[1][2]
In 1971, Frances Kofod and others published a grammar of the Ngaliwuru language,[3] while in 2011 a book of Jaminjung & Ngaliwuru names and uses of plants & animals was published.[4]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i Script error: No such module "IPA". | u Script error: No such module "IPA". | |
| Close-mid | e Script error: No such module "IPA". | ||
| Open | a Script error: No such module "IPA". |
Vowel length is not distinctive. The close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages.[5]
Consonants
Jaminjung has 18 consonants:[5]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p Script error: No such module "IPA". | k Script error: No such module "IPA". | j Script error: No such module "IPA". | th Script error: No such module "IPA". | t Script error: No such module "IPA". | rt Script error: No such module "IPA". |
| Nasal | m Script error: No such module "IPA". | ng Script error: No such module "IPA". | ny Script error: No such module "IPA". | n Script error: No such module "IPA". | rn Script error: No such module "IPA". | |
| Trill | rr Script error: No such module "IPA". | |||||
| Approximant | ly Script error: No such module "IPA". | l Script error: No such module "IPA". | rl Script error: No such module "IPA". | |||
| w Script error: No such module "IPA". | y Script error: No such module "IPA". | r Script error: No such module "IPA". | ||||
External links
- A corpus of Jaminjung recordings is archived with the DOBES project.
References
Notes
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General
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