| Marrku鈥揥urrugu | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Cobourg Peninsula region and Croker Island, Northern Territory |
| Linguistic classification | no demonstrable relatives |
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | marr1257 |
The Marrku鈥揥urrugu languages are a possible language family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western Arnhem Land. They are the recently extinct Marrgu, and the extinct Wurrugu. [1] They were once classified as distant relatives of the other Iwaidjan languages, until Nicholas Evans found the evidence for Marrgu's membership insufficient, concluding that similarities were due to borrowing (including of verbal paradigms). [2]
The genetic grouping of Marrgu and Wurrugu is supported by the following observations: [1]
- Despite being geographically separated by the Garig-Ilgar languages, the two languages share a relatively high cognacy rate (15 out of 43 words = ~35%).
- Both languages contain an interdental phoneme [dh], which is absent in the surrounding Iwaidjan languages.
Vocabulary
Capell (1942) lists the following basic vocabulary items: [3]
gloss Mara Margu man g盲rijimar geiag woman girija njun蓴n head mara艐u山u wa山i eye magu山 da藧森a nose dji山i 桑茂藧ni mouth 艐a藧ndal 艐a山jad tongue dji藧jil 艐a山jad stomach gunjan 桑iwud bone 艐ajigad aruwa blood 艐ulidji didja藧ridj kangaroo girm峄 w茂藧djud opossum gudja沙i wi藧山i山in emu djiwi蓶iwi蓶i mangunuba crow wa艐gana艐i reimbiriri fly gu沙蓶il m蓴lg sun gunaru mu山i moon wa蓶a艐ari rana fire wa蓶gar dju藧沙a smoke gu艐o艐o 艐o森an water 艐峄峠峄 wobaidj
References
- ^ a b Evans, N. (1996). "First and last notes on Wurrugu." University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, 91鈥97
- ^ Nicholas Evans (2016). 1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages. In Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy (Eds.), Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation (pp. 29鈥56). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- ^ Capell, Arthur. 1941-1942, 1942-1943. Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia. Oceania 12: 364-392, 13: 24-51.
| Marrku鈥揥urrugu | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Cobourg Peninsula region and Croker Island, Northern Territory |
| Linguistic classification | no demonstrable relatives |
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | marr1257 |
The Marrku鈥揥urrugu languages are a possible language family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western Arnhem Land. They are the recently extinct Marrgu, and the extinct Wurrugu. [1] They were once classified as distant relatives of the other Iwaidjan languages, until Nicholas Evans found the evidence for Marrgu's membership insufficient, concluding that similarities were due to borrowing (including of verbal paradigms). [2]
The genetic grouping of Marrgu and Wurrugu is supported by the following observations: [1]
- Despite being geographically separated by the Garig-Ilgar languages, the two languages share a relatively high cognacy rate (15 out of 43 words = ~35%).
- Both languages contain an interdental phoneme [dh], which is absent in the surrounding Iwaidjan languages.
Vocabulary
Capell (1942) lists the following basic vocabulary items: [3]
gloss Mara Margu man g盲rijimar geiag woman girija njun蓴n head mara艐u山u wa山i eye magu山 da藧森a nose dji山i 桑茂藧ni mouth 艐a藧ndal 艐a山jad tongue dji藧jil 艐a山jad stomach gunjan 桑iwud bone 艐ajigad aruwa blood 艐ulidji didja藧ridj kangaroo girm峄 w茂藧djud opossum gudja沙i wi藧山i山in emu djiwi蓶iwi蓶i mangunuba crow wa艐gana艐i reimbiriri fly gu沙蓶il m蓴lg sun gunaru mu山i moon wa蓶a艐ari rana fire wa蓶gar dju藧沙a smoke gu艐o艐o 艐o森an water 艐峄峠峄 wobaidj
References
- ^ a b Evans, N. (1996). "First and last notes on Wurrugu." University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, 91鈥97
- ^ Nicholas Evans (2016). 1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages. In Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy (Eds.), Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation (pp. 29鈥56). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- ^ Capell, Arthur. 1941-1942, 1942-1943. Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia. Oceania 12: 364-392, 13: 24-51.