Matngala language
{{Short description|Extinct language of northern Australia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Matngele
|region=Northern Territory, Australia
|extinct=by 2006
|ref=aiatsis
|speakers2=perhaps 1 reported 1973; perhaps 10 reported 1990
|familycolor=Australian
|fam1=Eastern Daly
|script=Latin
|iso3=zml
|glotto=madn1237
|glottorefname=Madngele
|aiatsis=N12
|notice=IPA
}}
Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory spoken by the Madngella and Yunggor peoples.
Classification
Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990).
Phonology
=Vowels=
=Consonants=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!rowspan="2" colspan="2"| !colspan="2"| Peripheral ! Laminal !colspan="2"| Apical |
| Bilabial
! Velar ! Palatal ! Alveolar |
|---|
| rowspan="2"| Stop
| {{IPA|p}} | {{IPA|k}} | {{IPA|c}} | {{IPA|t}} | |
| Voiced
| {{IPA|b}} | {{IPA|ɡ}} | {{IPA|ɟ}} | {{IPA|d}} | |
| colspan="2"| Nasal
| {{IPA|m}} | {{IPA|ŋ}} | {{IPA|ɲ}} | {{IPA|n}} | |
| colspan="2"| Lateral
| | | {{IPA|ʎ}} | {{IPA|l}} | |
| colspan="2"| Rhotic
| | | | {{IPA|r}} | {{IPA|ɻ}} |
| colspan="2"| Semivowel
|colspan="2"| {{IPA|w}} | {{IPA|j}} | | |
Grammar
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2002 |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780}}
- {{cite book |last=Zandvoort |first=F. B. |year=1999 |title=A grammar of Matngele |others=BA honours sub-thesis |location=Armidale |publisher=University of New England}}
External links
- [http://dalylanguages.org/view_language.php?id=8 Matngele] at the [http://dalylanguages.org/ Dalylanguages.org website].
{{Australian Aboriginal languages}}