Ngaygungu | |
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aka Ngȋ-koong-ō | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Queensland |
Extinct | last attested 1938 [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
AIATSIS [1] |
Y216 |
Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō [3]) is a sleeping, [4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898, [3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers. [2]
Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels [3]
ă | ā | ȃ | ĕ | ē | ĭ | ī | ȋ | ŏ | ō | oo |
each pronounced as in English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be marked [3] for length.
Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows: [3]
b | ch | g | j | k | m | n | ny | ng | r | t | y |
each pronounced as they would be in English.
Ngaygungu | |
---|---|
aka Ngȋ-koong-ō | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Queensland |
Extinct | last attested 1938 [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
AIATSIS [1] |
Y216 |
Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō [3]) is a sleeping, [4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898, [3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers. [2]
Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels [3]
ă | ā | ȃ | ĕ | ē | ĭ | ī | ȋ | ŏ | ō | oo |
each pronounced as in English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be marked [3] for length.
Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows: [3]
b | ch | g | j | k | m | n | ny | ng | r | t | y |
each pronounced as they would be in English.