Wadjiginy, also known as Wagaydy (Wogait) and Batjamalh, is an
Australian Aboriginal
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Humans first migrated to Australia (co ...
language. Apart from being closely related to
Kandjerramalh, it is not known to be related to any other language, though it has borrowed grammatical and lexical material from neighboring
Northern Daly languages.
Wadjiginy was spoken in the Northern Territory.
''Wadjiginy'' (Wadyiginy, Wagaydy, Wogaity) is the name of
the people The People may refer to:
Legal jargon
* The People, term used to refer to the people in general, in legal documents
* "We the People of the United States", from the Preamble to the U. S. Constitution
* In philosophy, economics, and political scienc ...
; this native language is ''Patjtjamalh (Batjamalh, Batytyamalh)''.
Phonology
Consonants
* Voiceless stop sounds may also fluctuate to voiced sounds when in word-initial, intervocalic, post-nasal, and post-liquid positions.
* /k, p/ can also be heard as fricatives , when in intervocalic and post-liquid positions.
* /w/ can be heard as a bilabial approximant when before front vowels /i, ɛ, ø/.
Vowels
* /ø/ can also be realized as a higher sound as well as .
Vocabulary
Capell
Capell or Capel is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Capell
* Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (1608–1649), English politician
* Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631–1683), English statesman
* Arthur Capell (1902–1 ...
(1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items:
:
References
External links
Batjamalhat th
Dalylanguages.org website
Wagaydyic languages
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