Matngala language

Matngele
Region	Northern Territory, Australia
Ethnicity	Madngella, Yunggor
Extinct	by 2006 census[1]; perhaps 1 reported 1973; perhaps 10 reported 1990
Language family	Eastern Daly Matngele;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zml
Glottolog	madn1237[2]
AIATSIS[1]	N12

Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory spoken by the Madngella and Yunggor peoples.

Classification

Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990).[1]

Matngele has only five simple verbs. These must be combined with coverbs in order to form complex verbs.

gollark: Added to your higher educational profile.

gollark: ?charinfo |¦|

gollark: Partly.

gollark: They *may* have been infohazards.

gollark: I've said about two words total.

N12 Matngele at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Madngele". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zandvoort, F. B. (1999). A grammar of Matngele. BA honours sub-thesis. Armidale: University of New England.

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