Gunwingguan languages
E1015088
The Gunwingguan languages are a group of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken primarily in western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Aboriginal language family
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| areal | Arnhem Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areCloselyRelated | eachOther ⓘ |
| areDistinctFrom | Pama-Nyungan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arePartOf | non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia ⓘ |
| areSpokenBy | Indigenous communities in western Arnhem Land ⓘ |
| areUsedFor |
ceremonial speech
ⓘ
everyday communication in some communities ⓘ traditional stories ⓘ |
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Aboriginal Australians of western Arnhem Land
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bininj people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyColor | Australian ⓘ |
| glottologClassification | Gunwingguan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bininj Kunwok
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gun-djeihmi dialect cluster ⓘ Gundjeihmi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kundedjnjenghmi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kundjeyhmi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kune NERFINISHED ⓘ Kunwinjku NERFINISHED ⓘ Manyallaluk Mayali NERFINISHED ⓘ related Gunwingguan varieties ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive laminal and apical coronals
ⓘ
rich stop and nasal series ⓘ |
| haveLinguisticResearch | Australian linguistics ⓘ |
| languageBranchOf | Arnhem languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryConsonantPlace | multipleCoronalSeries GENERATED ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Territory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Arnhem Land ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Northern Territory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Arnhem Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Arnhem language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typology |
agglutinative
ⓘ
polysynthetic ⓘ |
| wordOrder | flexible ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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