| Kungkari | |
|---|---|
| Kuungkari of Barcoo River | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Language family | Pama–Nyungan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lku |
| Glottolog | kuun1236 |
| AIATSIS | L38 |
| ELP | Kungkari |
Kungkari (also Gunggari, Koonkerri, Kuungkari) is an extinct and unclassified Australian Aboriginal language. The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.
Classification
Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.
Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language.
Wafer and Lissarrague (2008) report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990) is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.
Phonology
Consonants
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p | k | t̪ | c | t | ʈ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Lateral | (l̪) | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | |||
- The dental lateral mainly occurs as an allophone of /l/ within the consonant cluster /lt̪/.
- /t/ may be realized as a voiced stop when after /n/, or as a voiced tap in intervocalic positions.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u (uː) | |
| Low | a aː |
- The long only rarely occurs.
References
- ^ L38 Kungkari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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This Misplaced Pages article incorporates text from Kuungkari published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 25 May 2022.
- ^ Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. (eds.). Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021.
- Wafer, Jim; Lissarrague, Amanda (2008). A Handbook of Aboriginal Languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative.
- ^ Breen, Gavan (1990). Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages (PDF). Pacific Linguistics B-105. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
External links
- Kuungkari, Bidjara, Inangai & Wangkangurru (Central West Region) community language journey digital story, at State Library of Queensland
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