Jaminjung language
Jaminjung is a moribund 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 and 150 speakers in 2000.[4][5]
| Jaminjung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Victoria River (Northern Territory) |
Native speakers | 29[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | djd |
| Glottolog | djam1255[2] |
| AIATSIS[3] | N18 Jaminjung, N19 Ngaliwurru |
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | u /u/ | |
| Close-mid | e /e/ | ||
| Open | a /a/ |
Vowel length is not distinctive. The close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages.[6]
Consonants
Jaminjung has 18 consonants:[6]
| 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 / | ||||
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External links
- A corpus of Jaminjung recordings is archived with the DOBES project.
References
Notes
- "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jaminjung-Ngaliwurru". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- N18 Jaminjung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- Schultze-Berndt 2000, pp. 13–14
- Ethnologue
- Schultze-Berndt 2000, p. 41
General
- Schultze-Berndt, Eva F. (2000), Simple and Complex Verbs in Jaminjung - A Study of event categorisation in an Australian language
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