Matngele or Madngele is an extinct

Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Au ...

spoken by the

Madngella The Madngella, otherwise known as the ''Matngala'' or ''Hermit Hill tribe'', are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, Australia. Language The Madngella spoke Matngele, one of the Eastern Daly languages The Eastern Daly la ...

and Yunggor peoples.

Classification

Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990).

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Grammar

Matngele has only five simple

verb A verb () is a word ( part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual descr ...

s. These must be combined with coverbs in order to form complex verbs.

References

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External links

Matngele
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Dalylanguages.org website
{{Australian Aboriginal languages Eastern Daly languages