Anewan language
{{short description|Extinct Australian Aboriginal language}}
{{Lead too short|date=December 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Anaiwan
| altname = Anewan
New England
| nativename =
| region = Armidale, New South Wales
| extinct = ?
| revived = 2017
| ethnicity = Anēwan, Himberrong
| familycolor = Australian
| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan
| fam2 = Anaiwan
| dia1 = Nganyaywana (South Anaiwan)
| dia2 = Inuwon–Himberrong
| dia3 = ? Enneewin (North Anaiwan)
| map = Anaiwan language.png
| mapcaption = Anaiwan (green) among other Pama–Nyungan languages (tan)
| iso3 = nyx
| glotto = ngan1296
| glottorefname = Nganyaywana
| aiatsis = D24
| aiatsisname = Southern Anaiwan
| aiatsis2 = D64
| aiatsisname2 = Northern Anaiwan
| states = Australia
}}
Anaiwan (Anēwan) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales. Since 2017, there has been a revival program underway to bring the language back.
Classification
Once included in the Kuric languages, Bowern (2011) classifies Nganyaywana as a separate Anēwan (Anaiwan) branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages.Bowern, Claire. 2011. "[http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/how-many-languages-were-spoken-in-australia/ How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?]", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 ([http://pamanyungan.sites.yale.edu/master-list-australian-languages-v12 corrected] February 6, 2012)
Dialects
Besides Nganyaywana, Anewan may include Enneewin, with which shares about 65% of its vocabulary. Crowley (1976) counts these as distinct languages, whereas Wafer and Lissarrague (2008) consider them to be dialects.{{AIATSIS|D64|Enneewin}}
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! rowspan="2" | ! colspan="2" |Peripheral ! colspan="2" |Apical |
| Labial |
|---|
| Plosive
|b |ɡ |ɟ |d | |
| Nasal
|m |ŋ |ɲ |n | colspan="1" | |
| Lateral
| colspan="1" | | colspan="1" | | colspan="1" |ʎ |l | colspan="1" | |
| Trill
| colspan="1" | | colspan="1" | | colspan="1" | |r | colspan="1" | |
| Approximant
| colspan="2" |w |j | colspan="1" | | colspan="1" |ɻ |
= Vowels =
- Vowels are heard as /i, a, u/. Each may also have allophones as [e], [ɛ, ɔ], and [o].{{Cite book |last=Crowley |first=Terry M. |title=Phonological change in New England |publisher=Canberra: AIAS |year=1976 |location=In Dixon, R. M. W. (ed.), Grammatical categories in Australian languages |pages=19–50}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/collections/language_bibs/anaiwan_nganyaywana.pdf Bibliography of Nganyaywana language and people resources], at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
{{Aboriginal peoples in New South Wales}}
{{Pama–Nyungan languages|East}}
{{Australian Aboriginal languages}}
Category:Extinct languages of New South Wales
Category:Central New South Wales languages
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