Kalkatungu language

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Kalkatungu
Spoken in:	Mount Isa area, Queensland, Australia
Language extinction:	?
Language family:	Pama-Nyungan Galgadungic Kalkatungu
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`aus`
ISO 639-3:	`ktg`
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Kalkatungu (also written Kalkutungu, Galgadungu, Kalkutung, Kalkadoon, Galgaduun) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken around the area of Mount Isa, Queensland.

1 Classification
2 Phonology
- 2.1 Vowels
- 2.2 Consonants
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Classification

Kalkatungu is usually grouped with Yalarnnga as the Kalkatungic or Galgadungic branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. R. M. W. Dixon (2002), however, regards Kalkatungic as simply an areal group.

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i iː	u uː
Low	a aː

[edit] Consonants

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	c	t̪	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n	ɳ
Lateral			ʎ	l̪	l	ɭ
Rhotic					r	ɻ
Semivowel	w		j

[edit] References

Blake, B. J. (1979). A Kalkatungu grammar. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.