Jaminjung language
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Jaminjung is Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 to 150 speakers in 2000.[3][4]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | u /u/ | |
| Close-mid | e /e/ | ||
| Open | a /a/ |
Vowel length is not distinctive. Also, it should be noted that the close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages.[5]
Consonants
Jaminjung has 18 consonants:[5]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p /p/ | k /k/ | j /c/ | th /t̪/ | t /t/ | rt /ʈ / |
| Nasal | m /m/ | ng /ŋ/ | ny /ɲ/ | n /n/ | rn /ɳ / | |
| Trill | rr /r/ | |||||
| Approximant | ly /ʎ/ | l /l/ | rl /ɭ / | |||
| w /w/ | y /j/ | r /ɻ / | ||||
References
Notes
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jaminjung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
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- ↑ Schultze-Berndt 2000, pp. 13–14
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Schultze-Berndt 2000, p. 41
