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Kanyara–Mantharta Languages
The Kanyara and Mantharta languages form a western branch of the Pama–Nyungan family.Bowern, Claire. 2011.How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011correctedFebruary 6, 2012) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kanyara-Mantharta languages Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages Indigenous Australian languages in Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West Cape
North West Cape is a peninsula in the north-west of Western Australia. Cape Range National Park, Cape Range runs down the spine of the peninsula and Ningaloo Reef runs along the western edge. It is in the Gascoyne region and includes the town of Exmouth, Western Australia, Exmouth. History In 1618, Dutch East India Company captain Lenaert Jacobszoon and supercargo Willem Janszoon of the ''Mauritius'' landed in the area. Phillip Parker King later visited in 1818 and named it ''North West Cape'' as well as naming Exmouth Gulf after senior naval officer Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth. Later, pearl luggers visited the area from Broome, Western Australia, Broome. During World War II a military operation codenamed ''Operation Potshot'' was done in the area. The first Petroleum, oil flow in Australia was discovered there in 1953 at Rough Range, by exploration company WAPET. Exmouth Gulf Station takes up much of the eastern side of the peninsula backing onto Exmouth Gulf. The Nava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of , and is also the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth. Western Australia has a diverse range of climates, including tropical conditions in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley, deserts in the interior (including the Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victoria Desert) and a Mediterranean climate on the south-west and southern coastal areas. the state has 2.965 million inhabitants—10.9 percent of the national total. Over 90 percent of the state's population live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner and around 80 percent live in the state capital Perth, leaving the remainder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pama–Nyungan Languages
The Pama–Nyungan languages () are the most widespread language family, family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia. The name "Pama–Nyungan" is a merism: it is derived from the two end-points of the range, the Pama languages of northeast Australia (where the word for 'man' is ) and the Nyungan languages of southwest Australia (where the word for 'man' is ). The other language families indigenous to the continent of Australia are often referred to, by exclusion, as non-Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not a taxonomic term. The Pama–Nyungan family accounts for most of the geographic spread, most of the Aboriginal population, and the greatest number of languages. Most of the Pama–Nyungan languages are spoken by small ethnic groups of hundreds of speakers or fewer. Many languages have become extinct, and almost all remaining ones are endangered in some way. Only in the central inland portions of the continent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanyara Languages
The Kanyara languages are a pair of closely related languages in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. According to R. M. W. Dixon, Dixon, languages classified as members of the Kanyara languages group are (with the varieties in parentheses sometimes considered separate languages): * Burduna language, Burduna (Bayungu language, Bayungu/Payungu); and * Thalanyji language, Thalanyji (Binigura language, Binigura, Pinikura). However, according to Peter Austin (linguist), Peter Austin, Binigura language, Binigura/Pinikura, Thalanyji, Payungu language, Payungu and Purdana (all classified as separate languages in AUSTLANG) "should probably be classified as belonging to the Kanyara subgroup". The languages are spoken in the region between the mouths of the Gascoyne River and the Ashburton River (Western Australia), Ashburton River, along the coast and extending inland. The name ''kanyara'' comes from the word for "man" in Burdana and Thalanyji. The Kanyara languages form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantharta Languages
Mantharta is a partly extinct dialect cluster spoken in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. There were four varieties, which were distinct but largely mutually intelligible. The four were: * Tharrgari (Tharrkari, Dhargari), still spoken * Warriyangka (Wadiwangga), still spoken * Thiin (Thiinma), still spoken * Jiwarli language, Jiwarli (Tjiwarli), extinct 1986 The name ''mantharta'' comes from the word for "man" in all four varieties. Phonology The following is of the Thargari dialect: Consonants * /d̪/ can also be lenited as a fricative [ð] in intervocalic positions. * /ɾ/ can also be heard as a trill [r]. Vowels Language revival , the Warriyangga dialect is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanyara–Mantharta Languages
The Kanyara and Mantharta languages form a western branch of the Pama–Nyungan family.Bowern, Claire. 2011.How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011correctedFebruary 6, 2012) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kanyara-Mantharta languages Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages Indigenous Australian languages in Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Pama–Nyungan Languages
The Southwest Pama–Nyungan or Nyungic language group is the most diverse and widespread, though hypothetical, subfamily of the Pama–Nyungan language family of Australia. It contains about fifty distinct languages. Internal classification The Kanyara and Mantharta languages appear to be the most divergent of the Southwest languages. The others are sometimes collected under the name Nyungic. * Kanyara * Mantharta * Nyungic ** Ngayarda ** Kartu **''Nyungar'' **'' Mangarla'' **Mirning (Mirniny) ** Wati (Western Desert language) ** Marrngu ** Ngarrka–Ngumpin ** Yura Validity The proposal has been largely abandoned. Bowern (2011) restricts "Southwest Pama–Nyungan" to Nyungar plus Kalaaku (See Nyungic languages The Nyungic languages are the south-westernmost of the Australian Aboriginal languages: *Nyungic **Noongar language ** Galaagu language (Kalarko, Malpa) ** Kalaamaya– Natingero Galaagu and Kalaamaya/Natingero are poorly attested; it is n ...). However, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
