Yanda language
| Yanda | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | "Karna–Mari fringe", Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Yanda |
| Extinct | c. 1900s[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yda |
| Glottolog | yand1251 |
| AIATSIS[4] | G9 |
| ELP | Yanda |
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Yanda is an extinct and poorly attested Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland, known from a single wordlist from 1886. It was apparently close to Guwa.[4]
Phonology
[edit]The transcription of the Yanda wordlist is highly inaccurate. The following information is rather uncertain, especially concerning the rhotics and laterals.
Consonants
[edit]| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Plosive | p | k | t̪ | c | t | ʈ | |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ | |
| Rhotic | trill | r | |||||
| tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Lateral | (l̪) | (ʎ) | l | ɭ | |||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | ||||
Vowels
[edit]Vowels are assumed to be a three-vowel system /i, a, u/.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Blake, Barry J.; Breen, Gavan (1990). "Yanda". In Breen, Gavan (ed.). Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 145–148.
- ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
- 1 2 G9 Yanda at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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