Mantharta language
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Mantharta is a partly extinct dialect cluster spoken in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. There were four varieties, which were distinct but largely mutually intelligible. The four were:[1][2]
- Tharrgari (Tharrkari, Dhargari), still spoken c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- Thiin (Thiinma), still spoken c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
- Jiwarli (Tjiwarli), extinct 1986
The name mantharta comes from the word for "man" in all four varieties.
Phonology
The following is of the Thargari dialect:[4][5]
Consonants
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p/b | k/ɡ | t̪/d̪ | c/ɟ | t/d | ʈ/ɖ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l̪ | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | |||
- /d̪/ can also be lenited as a fricative [ð] in intervocalic positions.
- /ɾ/ can also be heard as a trill [r].
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i, iː | u, uː |
| Open | a, aː | |
Language revival
since 2020[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the Warriyangga dialect is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".[6]
References
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