Ngardi language

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Not to be confused with Ngardilpa (linguistics).

Ngardi
Spoken in:	Northern Territory and Western Australia
Total speakers:	80–100 with varying degrees of fluency
Language family:	Pama-Nyungan Ngardi
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`aus`
ISO 639-3:	–
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Ngardi or Ngardilj is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.

1 Classication
2 Phonology
- 2.1 Vowels
- 2.2 Consonants
3 References

[edit] Classication

Capell (1962) considered Ngardi, Warlpiri, and Warlmanpa to be dialects of a single language. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) groups Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa subgroup, but admits that this is based on limited data.

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

[edit] Consonants

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

[edit] References

Capell, A. (1962). Some linguistic types in Australia. Sydney: Oceania Publications.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Honeyman, Tom (2005). Topic and Focus in Ngardi, thesis, University of Sydney.