Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō
) is a sleeping,
originally spoken by the
Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from
Atherton in the
Wet Tropics of Queensland
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by
Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,
later also recorded by
Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.
Phonology
Vowels
Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels
each pronounced as in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be
marked
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for length.
Consonants
Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wi ...
s as follows:
each pronounced as they would be in English.
See also
*
Ngaygungu people
References
Maric languages
Extinct languages of Queensland
Unclassified languages of Australia
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