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Selected languages: | Ngarinjin |
UPSID number: | 8374 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Australian, Wororan |
The languages has | 24 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [p] [t] [ʈ] [c] [k] [ɾ] [r] [l] [ɭ] [ʎ] [w] [ɻ] [j] [m] [n] [ɳ] [ɲ] [ŋ] [ɪ] [ɨ] [ʊ] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ä] |
Comments: | Ngarinjin is spoken in the Northern Kimberley Ranges of northern Western Australia. Coate and Elkin's description of sounds is often variable: the palatals are labeled "palato-dental" (except "alveolar" /j/) on the consonant chart but just as palatals when listed individually; /l/ is "alveolar" on the chart but "alveo-velar" in the list. Symbols for plosives suggest voiced segments, but they are defined as voiceless. Vowels apparently may appear long. A high central vowel is added to the five vowels given by Coates and Elkin on the basis of a remark that this vowel is heard in some words and is "differentiated by some linguists in Ngarinjin". |
Sources: | Coates, Howard and A.P. Elkin. 1974. Ngarinjin - English Dictionary, vol. I. Oceania Linguistic Monograph, no. 16. |