Yangkaal language

Yangkaal
Nemarang, Nyangga
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Gananggalinda (Yangkaal)
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Macro-Pama–Nyungan? Tangkic Kayardild–Yangkaal Yangkaal
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nny Yangkaal/Nyangga (two different languages covered by [nny])
Glottolog	nyan1300
AIATSIS [1]	G37
ELP	Yangkaal

The Yangkaal language was an Australian Aboriginal language, also known as Yanggaralda, ^[2] Janggal, Gananggalinda, Nemarang, among other names. ^[1] Geoffrey O'Grady grouped it as a variety of Yukulta within the Tangkic language family. ^[a] The implication was that "Yanggal" was simply an alternative name for "Njangga", which is an alternative ethnonym for the Yanyula (Yanyuwa), from which the word Yanggal may have derived. ^[4]

Vocabulary

• bidinaŋga (man)
• magudaŋga (woman)
• ganda (father)
• ŋama (mother). ^[5]

Notes

1. 'Tangkic Group Jakula-Njangga (Yanggal, Nyangga).' ^[3]

References

1. G37 Yangkaal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. Tindale 1974, p. 170.
3. O'Grady, Voegelin & Voegelin 1966, p. 54.
4. Dixon & Blake 1983, p. 193.
5. Capell 1942, p. 50.

Sources

• Capell, Arthur (September 1942). "Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia (Continued)". Oceania . 13 (1): 24–50. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1942.tb00367.x. JSTOR   40327973.
• Dixon, Robert M. W.; Blake, Barry J., eds. (1983). Handbook of Australian Languages. Vol. 3. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN   978-9-027-22005-9.
• O'Grady, Geoffrey; Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M. (February 1966). "Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Six". Anthropological Linguistics. 8 (2): 1–197. JSTOR   30029431.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Janggal (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN   978-0-708-10741-6.