Marrithiyel language

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Marrithiyel
Berringen
Native to Australia
Region Daly River
Ethnicity Marrithiyal people, Marimanindji, Maridan, Mariamo, Maridjabin, Marijedi
Native speakers
15 (2016 census) [1]
Western Daly
  • Marrithiyel
Dialects
  • Marri Ammu
  • Marritjevin
  • Marridan
  • Marramanindjdji
  • Marrithiyel
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
mfr  – Marrithiyel
xru  – Marriammu
zmj  – Maridjabin
zmd  – Maridan
zmm  – Marimanindji
zmy  – Mariyedi
Glottolog mari1420
AIATSIS [2] N7
ELP Marrithiyel
  Marriammu
  Maridjabin
  Maridan
  Marimanindji
  Mariyedi

Marrithiyel (Marithiel, also Maridhiel, Maridhiyel), also known as Berringen (Bringen, Brinken), is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Marrithiyal people.

Contents

Dialects besides Marrithiyel proper are Nganygit, Marri Amu (Marriammu, Mare-Ammu), Maridjabin (Maredyerbin, Maretyabin, Maridyerbin, Maritjabin), Marridan (Meradan), Marramanindjdji (Marramaninydyi, Marimanindji), and Mariyedi. [2]

The Marri Amu dialect is part of a language revival project to save critically endangered languages. As of 2020, Marri Amu 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 which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers". [3]

Sounds

Consonants

Labial Velar Dental/
Alveolar 		Palatal/
Retroflex
Stop pktc
Nasal mŋnɲ
Fricative θʂ
Trill/Flap ɾ~r
Lateral l
Approximant wɹ̠j

Vowels

Front Central Back
High iu
Mid ɛ(ɜ)
Low a

References

  1. ↑ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 N7 Marrithiyel at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Green, Ian (1981). The phonology and morphology of Marrithiyel: A preliminary study. Canberra: Australian National University.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)