The Yangkaal language was an
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 ...
, also known as Yanggaralda, Janggal, Gananggalinda, Nemarang, among other names.
[ ]Geoffrey O'Grady
Geoffrey O'Grady (1 January 1928 -29 December 2008) was a professor Emeritus of linguistics whose primary field of specialisation was Australian Aboriginal languages.
Life and career
O'Grady trained as a jackaroo and worked as a stockman at W ...
grouped it as a variety of Yukulta
The Yukulta people, also spelt Jokula, Jukula, and other variants, and also known as Ganggalidda or Gangalidda, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland.
They may be the same as the Yanga group.
Country
Norman Tindale ( ...
within the Tangkic language family. The implication was that "Yanggal" was simply an alternative name for "Njangga", which is an alternative ethnonym
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...
for the Yanyula (Yanyuwa), from which the word Yanggal may have derived.
Vocabulary
* ''bidinaŋga'' (man)
* ''magudaŋga'' (woman)
* ''ganda'' (father)
* ''ŋama'' (mother).
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Tangkic languages
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