Mangarla language

{{short description|Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Mangarla

|altname=Mangala

|states=Australia

|region=Western Australia

|ethnicity=Mangala people

|speakers=68

|date=2016 census

|ref={{Cite web|url=http://stat.data.abs.gov.au/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ABS_C16_T09_SA|title=Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)|last=ABS|website=stat.data.abs.gov.au|language=en-au|publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics|access-date=2017-10-29}}

|familycolor=Australian

|fam1=Pama–Nyungan

|fam2=Marrngu

|dia1=Juwarliny

|iso3=mem

|glotto=mang1383

|glottorefname=Mangala

|aiatsis=A65

|map = Lang Status 20-CR.svg

|mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Mangarla is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Mangarla, also spelt Mangala, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It is spoken by the Mangarla people of the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert, inland from the coast.

Phoneme Inventory

Mangala's phoneme inventory is typical of Australian languages, and is identical to the inventories of the other Marrngu languages. There are 17 consonant phonemes.

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! rowspan="2" |

! colspan="2" |Peripheral

! colspan="2" |Apical

!Laminal

Bilabial

!Velar

!Alveolar

!Retroflex

!Palatal

Obstruents

| {{IPAlink|p}}

| {{IPAlink|k}}

| {{IPAlink|t}}

| {{IPAlink|ʈ}}

| {{IPAlink|ɟ}}

Nasals

| {{IPAlink|m}}

| {{IPAlink|ŋ}}

| {{IPAlink|n}}

| {{IPAlink|ɳ}}

| {{IPAlink|ɲ}}

Laterals

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|

| {{IPAlink|l}}

| {{IPAlink|ɭ}}

| {{IPAlink|ʎ}}

Rhotics

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|

| {{IPAlink|ɾ}}

| {{IPAlink|ɻ}}

|

Approximants

| colspan="2" | {{IPAlink|w}}

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| {{IPAlink|j}}

/ɾ/ may also occasionally be heard as a trill [r].

Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.

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!Front

!Back

High

| {{IPAlink|i}}

| {{IPAlink|u}}

Low

| colspan="2" | {{IPAlink|a}}

/i, u, a/ in unstressed syllables may be heard as [ɪ, ʊ, ə].

References

{{Reflist}}Agnew, Brigitte Louise. 2020. The core of Mangarla grammar. University of Melbourne.{{Pama–Nyungan languages|West}}

Category:Marrngu languages

Category:Critically endangered languages

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