Awngthim language
Awngthim is an Australian language spoken in Cape York in Queensland.
| Awngthim | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Ethnicity | [[]], Winduwinda |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gwm |
| Glottolog | awng1245[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] | Y31 Awngthim (cover term), Y39 Ntrwa'angayth |
Name
The name Awngthim is not a synonym of Anguthimri, though due to their similarity they have sometimes been confused.[3]
Dialects
Dialects are Ntrwa'ngayth /ntʳwaʔŋajt̪/, Thyanhngayth /t̪jan̪ŋajt̪/, and Mamngayth /mamŋajt̪/. -Ngayth is a suffix common to many tribal names of the area. These are the Ntrwa'a, Thyanh, and Mam dialects.
The Ndrangith and Ndra'ngith languages have been confused with Ntrwa'ngayth.
Phonology
Consonant Phonemes
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | ||
| Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t | ʔ |
| Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | |||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | |
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Post-trilled | tʳ | |||||
| Vibrant | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɹ | |||
gollark: My interpretation of the rules is that I always win all the time and all other intepretations are void. SoundOfSpouting: SOUNDOFSPOUTED.
gollark: Quonauts isn't entirely a logical system, is it? It falls back on human judgement.
gollark: Didn't we end up breaking Quo9.5?
gollark: Nobody cared enough to stop me, basically.
gollark: But if there was no heavloophole it would have passed fine.
See also
- Ndra'ngith language, identified in Donohue (1991) as being the same as the Ntrwa'ngayth dialect, but seen as distinct by Sutton (2001)[2]
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Awngthim". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Y31 Awngthim (cover term) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.16
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