Nakkara (Na-kara) is an
Australian Aboriginal language
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
spoken by the
Nagara people
The Nagara, also written Nakara, are an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory
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Arnhem Land
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in the
Northern Territory
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It is also spelled ''Nakara'' or ''Nagara'' and also called ''Kokori''.
Phonology
Consonants
Stops have both voiced and voiceless allophones, depending on their position in the word. Furthermore, a stop length variation is present, which is only contrastive in morpheme-medial positions. This can be interpreted as either gemination, or as evidence for the existence of two separate stop series, with a suprasegmental hypothesis being mostly ruled out.
The tapped and trilled allophones of /r/ are in free variation.
Vowels
References
Maningrida languages
Indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory
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