Awabakal language
E515350
Awabakal language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Awabakal people of the coastal region around present-day Newcastle and Lake Macquarie in New South Wales.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Aboriginal language
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Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Awaba
NERFINISHED
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Awabagal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Biraban (Awabakal leader and informant) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
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Newcastle, New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important for Awabakal identity
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used in Awabakal songs and ceremonies ⓘ |
| documentationPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
Biraban
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Lancelot Edward Threlkeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Awabakal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottologCode | awba1239 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Awabakal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasImportantWork |
A Key to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language
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An Australian Grammar of the Language, as Spoken by the Aborigines, in the Vicinity of Hunter’s River, Lake Macquarie, &c. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
demonstrative system encoding distance
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noun classes or semantic groupings ⓘ pronominal distinctions for person and number ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
case marking on nouns
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rich verbal inflection ⓘ suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
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laminal and apical consonant contrasts ⓘ three-vowel system ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | relatively free word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | awk ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Pama–Nyungan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Awabakal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Hunter Region
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Lake Macquarie area NERFINISHED ⓘ New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal region around Newcastle ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffortBy | Awabakal community organizations ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Awabakal people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | revival language ⓘ |
| subfamily | Yuin–Kuric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroup | Kuri ⓘ |
| traditionalLanguageOf | Awabakal people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural revitalization
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language education programs ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.