| Mantharta | |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Tharrkari,Wariangga,Tenma,Jiwarli, ?Malgaru |
Native speakers | 2 Dhargari (2005)[1] 1 (2007)[2] |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:dhr – Dhargariwri – Warriyanggaiin – Thiindze – Djiwarli |
| Glottolog | mant1266 |
| AIATSIS[1] | W21 Tharrkari,W22 Warriyangka,W25 Thiin,W28 Jiwarli |
 Mantharta languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). | |
Mantharta is a partly extinctdialect cluster spoken in the southernPilbara region ofWestern Australia. There were four varieties, which were distinct but largely mutually intelligible. The four were:[3][4]
The namemantharta comes from the word for "man" in all four varieties.
The following is of the Thargari dialect:[6][7]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p/b | k/ɡ | t̪/d̪ | c/ɟ | t/d | ʈ/ɖ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l̪ | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | |||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i, iː | u, uː |
| Open | a, aː | |
As of 2020[update], the Warriyangga dialect 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".[8]
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