Mangarrayi language
{{short description|Australian Aboriginal language}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Mangarrayi
| states = Australia
| region = Northern Territory
| ethnicity = Mangarrayi
| date = 2016 census
| familycolor = Australian
| fam1 = Macro-Gunwinyguan
| fam2 = Marran
| iso3 = mpc
| aiatsis = N78
| glotto = mang1381
| glottorefname = Mangarrayi
| speakers = 2
}}
Mangarrayi (Manggarrai, Mungerry, Ngarrabadji) is an Australian language spoken in the Northern Territory. Its classification is uncertain. Margaret Sharpe originally sought to record the language but turned to the study of Alawa after the station owner where her informants lived denied her access, having tired of the presence of researchers on the property.{{sfn|Sharpe|2008|p=61,n.2}}
Speakers
The 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics official census indicates that there are no speakers of Mangarrayi remaining, however elders Sheila Conway and Jessie Roberts are both speakers of Mangarrayi.{{Cite book|title=Big river country : stories from Elsey Station|date=1996|publisher=IAD Press|others=Dirngayg, Amy., Merlan, Francesca.|isbn=9780949659927|location=Alice Springs, NT|oclc=36270843}} Conway continues to make an important contribution to language revitalization projects in the Jilkminggan community.
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="IPA wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! rowspan="2" | ! colspan="2" |Peripheral ! colspan="2" |Apical ! rowspan="2" |Glottal |
| Labial |
|---|
| Plosive
|p |k |c |t |ʈ |ʔ |
| Nasal
|m |ŋ |ɲ |n |ɳ | |
| Rhotic
| | | |ɾ |ɻ | |
| Lateral
| | | |l |ɭ | |
| Approximant
| colspan="2" |w |j | | | |
= Vowels =
Numeric system
Mangarrayi has a number system that extends only to three.
Vocabulary
Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Mungarai (Mangarayi):Capell, Arthur. 1940. [https://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/4167 The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia]. Oceania 10(3): 241-272, 404-433. {{doi|10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00292.x}}
:
| class="wikitable sortable"
! gloss ! Mungarai |
| man
| malaṉ |
| woman
| gaɖugu |
| head
| gaia |
| eye
| djib |
| nose
| miliŋ |
| mouth
| djäɽäb |
| tongue
| djawi |
| stomach
| daɽa |
| bone
| dama |
| blood
| guranjin |
| kangaroo
| garawi |
| opossum
| widjwidj |
| crow
| wagwag |
| fly
| mɔːdj |
| sun
| ganjwar |
| moon
| giidj |
| fire
| damaia |
| smoke
| gunburau |
| water
| ŋogo |
Notes and references
{{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:North Australian word lists}}
=Notes=
{{Reflist|30em}}
=References=
{{refbegin}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Alawa and its Neighbours: Enigma Variations 1 and 2
| last = Sharpe | first = Margaret
| title =Morphology and Language History: In Honour of Harold Koch
| editor1-last =Bowern | editor1-first = Claire
| editor2-last = Evans | editor2-first = Bethwyn
| editor3-last = Miceli | editor3-first = Luisa
| year = 2008
| publisher = John Benjamins Publishing
| pages = 59–70
| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=NaY5AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA59
| isbn = 978-9-027-24814-5
}}
- Bernard Comrie. 2013. Numeral Bases. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/131, Accessed on 2017-04-27.)
- Jessie Garalnganyjak Roberts et al., 2011, Mangarrayi and Yangman plants and animals : Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from Elsey and the Roper River, north Australia, Darwin : Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport : Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corp./Mimi Aboriginal Art & Craft
- Merlan, F., 1982, Mangarayi, Lingua Descriptive Series, vol. 4, Amsterdam
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