Kattang

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Kattang is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken by the Worimi people of New South Wales.

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instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
endangered language
alternativeName Gathang NERFINISHED
Gathang language NERFINISHED
Kattang language NERFINISHED
associatedWith Worimi Local Aboriginal Land Council NERFINISHED
language revival projects in New South Wales
closelyRelatedTo Dharawal language NERFINISHED
Yuin languages NERFINISHED
country Australia
documentedIn linguistic fieldwork notes and grammars
ethnicGroup Birrbay people NERFINISHED
Guringay people NERFINISHED
Worimi people NERFINISHED
hasGrammaticalFeature case marking on nouns
ergative–absolutive alignment
rich verbal inflection
suffixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between short and long vowels
retroflex consonants
three-vowel system
hasWordOrder relatively free word order
iso639-3Code bjt
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED
languageGroup Kattangic NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Yuin–Kuric NERFINISHED
region New South Wales NERFINISHED
mid-north coast of New South Wales
revitalisationEffort community language programs in New South Wales
teaching in local schools and TAFE courses
spokenBy Birrbay people NERFINISHED
Guringay people NERFINISHED
Worimi people NERFINISHED
status revival language
severely endangered
traditionalTerritory Gloucester region NERFINISHED
Hastings River region NERFINISHED
Manning River region NERFINISHED
Port Stephens region NERFINISHED
Taree region NERFINISHED
Worimi country NERFINISHED
usedFor ceremonial contexts
community events
cultural education
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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