Wadi Wadi language

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Wadi-Wadi
Native to Australia
Region Victoria, New South Wales
Ethnicity Wadi Wadi, Weki Weki?
Native speakers
nearly extinct [1]
Pama–Nyungan
Dialects
  • Piangil
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xwd
Glottolog wadi1260
AIATSIS [3] D4
ELP Wadi-Wadi

Wadi-Wadi is an extinct Indigenous Australian language once spoken in Victoria and New South Wales.

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Clark suggests that Jari Jari is a closely related language, [4] but this name may refer to other languages. [5] [6]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Velar Dental Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive pkt̪ctʈ
Nasal mŋn̪ɲnɳ
Rhotic ɾ~rɻ
Lateral l
Approximant wj

Vowels

Front Central Back
High iu
Mid e
Low a

Vowels are heard as [ɪ,ɛ~ə,ɐ,ʊ] when in lax positions. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Wadi-Wadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN   978-0-521-47378-1
  3. ↑ D4 Wadi-Wadi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ↑ Clark, Ian (1996). Aboriginal language areas in Victoria: a reconstruction. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.
  5. ↑ Blake, Barry; Reid, Julie (1998). "Classifying Victorian languages". In B. Blake (ed.). Wathawurrung and the Colac language of southern Victoria. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  6. ↑ Horgen, Michael (2004). The languages of the Lower-Murray (MA). La Trobe University.
  7. ↑ Blake, Barry J.; Hercus, Luise; Morey, Stephen; Ryan, Edward (2011). The Mathi group of languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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