Ngaygungu language

Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō[3]) is a sleeping,[4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,[3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.[2]

Ngaygungu
aka Ngȋ-koong-ō
Native toAustralia
RegionQueensland
Extinctlast attested 1938[1]
Pama–Nyungan ?
  • (unclassified, probably Maric)[2]
    • Ngaygungu
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
AIATSIS[1]Y216

Phonology

Vowels

Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels[3]

ăāȃĕēĭīȋŏōoo

each pronounced as in English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be marked[3] for length.

Consonants

Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows:[3]

bchgjkmnnyngrty

each pronounced as they would be in English.

See also

References

  1. Y216 Ngaygungu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
  3. Roth, Walter Edmund (1898), Some ethnological notes on the Atherton blacks (October 1898), Cooktown: Queensland Home Secretarys Department, Office of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals
  4. Wesley, Leonard Y. (2008), "When Is an "Extinct Language" Not Extinct?" (PDF), Susataining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: 23–34


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