Madhi-Madhi, also known as Muthimuthi or Madi Madi, is an Indigenous Australian language spoken by the

Muthi Muthi The Muthi Muthi people are an indigenous Australian people whose traditional lands are located in the Northern Riverina and Far West regions of New South Wales. The Muthi Muthi are the traditional owners of Nimmie Caira and the Lowbidgee and ...

Aboriginal people of south-west

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. It is also known as Madhi Madhi, Madi Madi, Bakiin, Mataua, Matimati, Matthee matthee, Moorta Moorta, Mudhi Mudhi, Muthimuthi, Muti muti, Muttee Muttee, Madimadi, Mutte Mutte, or Madi madi.

Luise Hercus Luise Anna Hercus , , (16 January 1926 – 15 April 2018) was a German-born linguist who lived in Australia from 1954. After significant early work on Middle Indo-Aryan dialects (Prakrits) she had specialised in Australian Aboriginal languages si ...

Hercus, L. A
"Three linguistic studies from far south western NSW"
''Aboriginal History'', 1989; v. 13 no. 1-2., p. 44-62
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. published in 1989 a substantial amount of Madhi Madhi language data recorded from Jack Long, whom she described as "the last Madimadi man".

Phonology

Consonants

/t̪, n̪/ are heard as palatal sounds , ɲwhen before front vowels. Voicing among stop sounds /p, k, t̪~c, t, ʈ/ as , ɡ, d̪~ɟ, d, ɖmay also be heard in syllable-initial positions or when following nasal sounds. /t̪/ can be lenited as �when in intervocalic positions, and as �in post-nasal, word-medial position.

Vowels

Vowels are heard as when in lax positions.

References

* Kulin languages {{Ia-lang-stub