Guwa language

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Guwa
Goa
Native to Australia
Region"Karna–Mari fringe", Queensland
Ethnicity Koa people
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified, possibly Maric) [1] [2]
    • Guwa–Yanda
      • Guwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xgw
Glottolog guwa1242
AIATSIS [3] G9.1
ELP Guwa

Guwa, also spelt Goa, Koa, and other variants, is an extinct and nearly unattested Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland spoken by the Koa people. It was apparently close to Yanda. [3]

Contents

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Dental Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive pkt̪ctʈ
Nasal mŋn̪ɲnɳ
Rhotic ɾ ~ r
Lateral (l̪)ʎl(ɭ)
Approximant wjɻ

Vowels

Vowels are a three-vowel system /i, a, u/. [4]

References

  1. ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
  2. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
  3. 1 2 G9.1 Guwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ↑ Blake, Barry J.; Breen, Gavan (1990). Guwa. In Gavan Breen (ed.), Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 108–144.


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