Wadi-Wadi | |
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Region | Victoria, New South Wales |
Ethnicity | Wadi Wadi, ?Weki Weki |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xwd |
Glottolog | wadi1260 |
AIATSIS[2] | D4 |
ELP | Wadi-Wadi |
Wadi-Wadi is an extinct Indigenous Australian language once spoken in Victoria and New South Wales.
Clark suggests that Jari Jari is a closely related language,[3] but this name may refer to other languages.[4][5]
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
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Plosive | p | k | t̪ | c | t | ʈ |
Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
Rhotic | ɾ~r | ɻ | ||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | ||
Low | a |
Vowels are heard as [ɪ, ɛ~ə, ɐ, ʊ] when in lax positions.[6]
References
- ↑ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
- ↑ D4 Wadi-Wadi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Clark, Ian (1996). Aboriginal language areas in Victoria: a reconstruction. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.
- ↑ Blake, Barry; Reid, Julie (1998). "Classifying Victorian languages". In B. Blake (ed.). Wathawurrung and the Colac language of southern Victoria. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- ↑ Horgen, Michael (2004). The languages of the Lower-Murray (MA). La Trobe University.
- ↑ Blake, Barry J.; Hercus, Luise; Morey, Stephen; Ryan, Edward (2011). The Mathi group of languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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