Awabakal language

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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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instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
endangered language
alternativeName Awaba NERFINISHED
Awabagal NERFINISHED
associatedWithPeople Biraban (Awabakal leader and informant) NERFINISHED
associatedWithPlace Lake Macquarie, New South Wales NERFINISHED
Newcastle, New South Wales NERFINISHED
country Australia
culturalSignificance important for Awabakal identity
used in Awabakal songs and ceremonies
documentationPeriod 19th century
documentedBy Biraban NERFINISHED
Lancelot Edward Threlkeld NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry Awabakal NERFINISHED
hasGlottologCode awba1239
hasGlottologName Awabakal NERFINISHED
hasImportantWork A Key to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language NERFINISHED
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
noun classes or semantic groupings
pronominal distinctions for person and number
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
rich verbal inflection
suffixing morphology
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
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
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
language education programs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Darug language closelyRelatedTo Awabakal language
Awabakal people language Awabakal language