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Wagaya (Wakaya) is an
On the right is an example of the many comparisons of Wakaya grammar to other Australian languages within the same family.
The Wambaya language is a neighbor of the Wakaya group and thus there are many similarities in the grammar and word structures between the two languages. ''A Grammar of Wambaya'' was written by Dr. Rachel Nordlinger in hope of helping younger Wambaya speakers learn something of their language or at least have access to their language when it is no longer being spoken around them since there were only 8 to 10 fluent speakers of the language left around the late 1990s.
There are many references to Wakaya's linguistic characteristics such as its vocabulary and grammar structure and how they compare to other Australian languages within the same family group in ''Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method''.
“The Ngumpin-YAPA Subgroup” is an article by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and The University of Queensland which provides shared innovations within the Ngumpin-Yapa languages such as phonological, morphological, and lexical changes. There are several common elements between the NGY and Warluwarric groups (which Wakaya is a sub-group of) and so this article presents some linguistic characteristics such as vocabulary and spelling comparisons of the Wakaya language.Mcconvell, P., & Laughren, M. (2004). The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup.''Classification and the Comparative Method Australian Languages Current Issues in Linguistic Theory,'' 151-177. doi:10.1075/cilt.249.11mcc
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extinct
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Australian Aboriginal language
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of Queensland
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. Yindjilandji (Indjilandji) may have been a separate language. The linguist Gavan Breen
Gavan Breen (born 22 January 1935), OAM, also known as J.G. Breen, is an Australian linguist, specialising in the description of Australian Aboriginal languages. He has studied and recorded 49 such languages.
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recorded two dialects of the language, an Eastern and a Western variety, incorporating their description in his 1974 grammar.
Classification
Wagaya belongs to the Warluwarric (Ngarna) subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan family ofAustralian languages
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 ...
. It is most related to Yindjilandji
The Yindjilandji are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
The Yindjilandji language is usually grouped as one of the Ngarna languages, and considered a southern variety, and either a dialect of Wagawa if not an inde ...
, Bularnu, and Warluwarra. Gavan Breen groups Wagaya together with Yindjilandji into the "Ngarru" group, while Bularnu and Warluwarra form the "Thawa" group (each respectively after the common word for 'man, Aboriginal person'). These two groups together form the southern branch of Ngarna/Warluwarric, to which the discontinuous Yanyuwa is related at the uppermost level of the whole subgroup.
Work on proto-Warluwarric has been done by Catherine Koch (1989), Daniel Brammall (1991), Margaret Carew (1993), and Gavan Breen (2004).
Sounds
History
There are reports of around 10 Native speakers worldwide as of 1983, but the language is currently extinct.Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)Geographic distribution
While endangeredlanguages.com reports 10 speakers of this language as of 1983, ethnologue.com explicitly states that the language is extinct. Broadly speaking, the traditional language of Wakaya country is to the north east and east of Tennant Creek, Alyawarre is to the east and south east, Kaytetye is to the South, and Warlpiri to the west. Coordinates Latitude: -20.33 Longitude: 137.62Grammar
On the right is an example of the many comparisons of Wakaya grammar to other Australian languages within the same family.
The Wambaya language is a neighbor of the Wakaya group and thus there are many similarities in the grammar and word structures between the two languages. ''A Grammar of Wambaya'' was written by Dr. Rachel Nordlinger in hope of helping younger Wambaya speakers learn something of their language or at least have access to their language when it is no longer being spoken around them since there were only 8 to 10 fluent speakers of the language left around the late 1990s.
There are many references to Wakaya's linguistic characteristics such as its vocabulary and grammar structure and how they compare to other Australian languages within the same family group in ''Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method''.
“The Ngumpin-YAPA Subgroup” is an article by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and The University of Queensland which provides shared innovations within the Ngumpin-Yapa languages such as phonological, morphological, and lexical changes. There are several common elements between the NGY and Warluwarric groups (which Wakaya is a sub-group of) and so this article presents some linguistic characteristics such as vocabulary and spelling comparisons of the Wakaya language.Mcconvell, P., & Laughren, M. (2004). The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup.''Classification and the Comparative Method Australian Languages Current Issues in Linguistic Theory,'' 151-177. doi:10.1075/cilt.249.11mcc
External links
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References
{{Pama–Nyungan languages, North Ngarna languages Extinct languages of Queensland