| Malgana | |
|---|---|
| Region | Shark Bay area of Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Malgana people |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
vml |
| Glottolog |
malg1242 |
| AIATSIS [1] |
W18 |
| ELP | Malkana |
Malgana, also known as Malkana, is the Aboriginal Australian language of the Malgana people of Western Australia. It is one of the Kartu languages of the Pama–Nyungan family of languages.
Malgana country is the area around Shark Bay in Western Australia. In particular it includes the Peron and Edel Land Peninsulas as well as some of the adjoining land.[ citation needed] Buluguda, Damala, and Watjanti were likely Malgana-speaking locations or social groupings, rather than dialects.[ citation needed]
The Irra Wangga Language Centre (having taken over from the Yamaji Language Centre) has been carrying out work on the Malgana language since 1995, and has produced an illustrated wordlist from local speakers of the language. A Sketch Grammar of Malgana (Gargett, 2012) was published by Pacific Linguistics. [2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Stop | b | ɡ | t̪ | ɟ | d | ɖ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Lateral | l̪ | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
| Rhotic | ɹ | ɽ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː |
| Low | a aː | |
References
- ^ W18 Malgana at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ "Irra Wangga". Bundiyarra. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
Gargett, Andrew. (2011). A salvage grammar of Malgana, the language of Shark Bay, Western Australia. (Pacific Linguistics, 624.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
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