| Jaminjung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Victoria River (Northern Territory) |
Native speakers | 29 (2016)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | djd |
| Glottolog | djam1255 |
| AIATSIS[2] | N18 Jaminjung,N19 Ngaliwurru |
| ELP | Jaminjung |
| Ngaliwurru | |
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Jaminjung is a moribundAustralian language spoken around theVictoria River in theNorthern Territory ofAustralia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000.[3][1]
In 1971,Frances Kofod and others published a grammar of the Ngaliwuru language,[4] while in 2011 a book of Jaminjung & Ngaliwuru names and uses of plants & animals was published.[5]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i/i/ | u/u/ | |
| Close-mid | e/e/ | ||
| Open | a/a/ |
Vowel length is not distinctive. Theclose-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages.[6]
Jaminjung has 18consonants:[6]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p/p/ | k/k/ | j/c/ | th/t̪/ | t/t/ | rt/ʈ / |
| Nasal | m/m/ | ng/ŋ/ | ny/ɲ/ | n/n/ | rn/ɳ / | |
| Trill | rr/r/ | |||||
| Approximant | ly/ʎ/ | l/l/ | rl/ɭ / | |||
| w/w/ | y/j/ | r/ɻ / | ||||
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