Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō
) is a sleeping,
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 ...
originally spoken by the
Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from
Atherton in the
Wet Tropics of Queensland
The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site consists of approximately 8,940 km2 of Australian wet tropical forests growing along the north-east Queensland portion of the Great Dividing Range. The Wet Tropics of Queensland meets all f ...
by
Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,
later also recorded by
Norman Barnett Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians a ...
in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.
Phonology
Vowels
Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels
each pronounced as in
English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be
marked for length.
Consonants
Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...
s as follows:
each pronounced as they would be in English.
See also
*
Ngaygungu people
References
Maric languages
Extinct languages of Queensland
Unclassified languages of Australia
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