| Malgana | |
|---|---|
| Malkana | |
| Region | Shark Bay area ofWestern Australia |
| Ethnicity | Malgana people |
| Extinct | 1990s |
| Revival | 1-10 (2018-19) undergoingrevival[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vml |
| Glottolog | malg1242 |
| AIATSIS[2] | W18 |
| ELP | Malkana |
Malgana, also known asMalkana, is theAboriginal Australian language of theMalgana people ofWestern Australia. It is one of theKartu languages of thePama–Nyungan family of languages.
Malgana country is the area aroundShark Bay in Western Australia. In particular it includes the Peron and Edel Land Peninsulas as well as some of the adjoining land.[citation needed] Buluguda, Damala, and Watjanti were likely Malgana-speaking locations or social groupings, rather than dialects.[citation needed]
The Irra Wangga Language Centre (having taken over from the Yamaji Language Centre) has been carrying out work on the Malgana language since 1995, and has produced an illustrated wordlist from local speakers of the language.A Sketch Grammar of Malgana (Gargett, 2012) was published by Pacific Linguistics.[3]
There is a sign in theShire of Shark Bay that readsYandani Gathaagudu, with under it being theEnglish translation, "Welcome to Shark Bay".[4]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Stop | b | ɡ | t̪ | ɟ | d | ɖ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Lateral | l̪ | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
| Rhotic | ɹ | ɽ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː |
| Low | a aː | |
Gargett, Andrew. (2011).A salvage grammar of Malgana, the language of Shark Bay, Western Australia. (Pacific Linguistics, 624.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
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