Kuku Nyungkal dialect
Kuku Nyungkal | |
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Gugu Njunggal | |
Region | Annan River, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Kuku Nyungkal people |
Native speakers | 5 (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog |
kuku1274 [1] |
AIATSIS[2] |
Y90 |
Kuku Nyungkal (also spelled Kuku Njunggal, Guugu Nyungkul, Gugu Njunggal[3]) is an Australian Aboriginal language and the language of the Kuku Nyungkal people of Far North Queensland. It's a variety of Kuku Yalanji still being spoken (though by fewer people than speak Kuku Yalanji itself).[4] Most of the speakers today live in the communities of Wujal Wujal and Mossman.
The UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger includes Kuku Nyungkal language as part of a larger Kuku Yalanji languages listing, identifying and listing all the Kuku Yalanji languages as a whole as being "severely endangered" [5]
Phonology
Vowels
Kuku Nyungkal has three vowels as follows:[4]
Vowels | English equivalent |
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a | as in f a ther |
i | as in p i t |
u | as in p u t |
Consonants
Kuku Nyungkal has thirteen consonants as follows:[4]
b | d | j | k | l | m | n | ny | ng | r | rr | w | y |
All are pronounced as they would be in English, with the rr used for a rolled r, as in the Scottish r.
See also
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kuku-Nyungkul". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Kuku Nyungkal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies "Gugu Nyungkul language (Y90) (Qld SD55-13)" Language and People Thesaurus webpage Accessed 21 January 2011
- 1 2 3 Hershberger, Henry & Hershberger Ruth (1986) "Kuku Yalanji Dictionary Summer Institute of Linguistics. Darwin" Accessed 21 January 2010
- ↑ UNESCO "Interactive Atlas" UNESCO Atlas of the Worlds languages in danger webpage Accessed 23 January 2011