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Ilgar, also known as Garig-Ilgar after its two dialects, is an extinct Iwaidjan language spoken in the mainland of Cobourg Peninsula, around
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Phonology


Consonant inventory

Evans, Nicholas (1998). "Iwaidja mutation and its origins". In Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song. Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 115–149. Unlike many Australian languages, Ilgar does not have
lamino-alveolar A laminal consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue in contact with upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, to possibly, as ...
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Vowels

Evans(1998) briefly discusses vowels in his paper noting that Iwaidjan languages including Ilgar have a three vowel ( /a/, /i/, /u/) system typical of most Australian languages.


References


Further reading

*Evans, N. (2007). ''Pseudo-argument affixes in Iwaidja and Ilgar: a case of deponent subject and object agreement''. In M. Baerman, G. G. Corbett, D. Brown, & A. Hippisley (Eds.), Deponency and morphological mismatches (pp. 271–296). Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Evans,N. (1994). ''Ilgar Field Notes'', Recorded from Charlie Wardaga. {{Australian Aboriginal languages Iwaidjan languages Languages extinct in the 2000s