| Kuku Nyungkal | |
|---|---|
| Gugu Njunggal | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Annan River, Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Kuku Nyungkal people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 5)[citation needed] |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | kuku1274 |
| AIATSIS[1] | Y90 |
TheKuku Nyungkal dialect (also writtenKuku Nyungkul,Kuku Njunggal,Guugu Nyungkul,Gugu Njunggal,Kuku Njungkul,[2]Kuku Ngungkal[3]) is anAustralian Aboriginal language and the language of theKuku Nyungkal people ofFar North Queensland. It is a variety ofKuku Yalanji still being spoken (though by fewer people than speak Kuku Yalanji itself).[4] Most of the speakers today live in the communities ofWujal Wujal andMossman.
The UNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger includes Kuku Nyungkal language as part of a larger Kuku Yalanji languages listing, identifying and listing all the Kuku Yalanji languages as a whole as being "severely endangered".[5]
As of 2020[update], Kuku Ngungkal is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by theDepartment of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".[3]
Kuku Nyungkal has threevowels as follows:[4]
| Vowels | English equivalent |
|---|---|
| a | as infa ther |
| i | as inpi t |
| u | as inpu t |
Kuku Nyungkal has thirteenconsonants as follows:[4]
| b | d | j | k | l | m | n | ny | ng | r | rr | w | y |
All are pronounced as they would be in English, with the rr used for arolled r, as in the Scottish r.
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