Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

spoken by the Madngella and

Yunggor The Yunggor were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language The Yunggor spoke a dialect of Matngele language, Matngele, one of the Daly languages. The language has died out, and was recorded in the 1960s only from two abo ...

peoples.

Classification

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

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Grammar

Matngele has only five simple

verb A verb () is a word ( part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual descr ...

s. These must be combined with

coverb A coverb is a word or prefix that resembles a verb or co-operates with a verb. In languages that have the serial verb construction, coverbs are a type of word that shares features of verbs and prepositions. A coverb takes an object or complemen ...

s in order to form complex verbs.

References

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External links

Matngele
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Dalylanguages.org website
{{Australian Aboriginal languages Eastern Daly languages