Wangkangurru or Wangganguru is an extinct
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 ...
of the
Pama–Nyungan family. It was a dialect of
Arabana
The Arabana, also known as the Ngarabana, are an Aboriginal Australian people of South Australia.
Name
The older tribal Exonym and endonym, autonym was Ngarabana, which may have been misheard by white settlers as Arabana, the term now generall ...
spoken by the
Wangkangurru people.
Wangganguru had the full range of consonants of the prototypical Australian language. Several of the nasals and laterals were allophonically
prestopped.
[Jeff Mielke, 2008. ''The emergence of distinctive features'', p 135]
References
Karnic languages
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