Ritharrŋu

E921828

Ritharrŋu is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yolŋu group, traditionally spoken by the Ritharrŋu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Ritharrngu 1

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
Yolŋu language
belongsToCulturalGroup Yolŋu NERFINISHED
continent Australia
country Australia
ethnicGroup Ritharrŋu people NERFINISHED
glottocode rita1238
hasAlternativeName Ritharnggu
Ritharngu NERFINISHED
Ritharrngu
Ritharrngu-Wägilak NERFINISHED
Ritharrŋ NERFINISHED
Ritharrŋu-Wägilak NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder flexible word order
hasDialects Ritharrŋu proper NERFINISHED
Wägilak
hasMorphologicalFeature extensive case marking
suffixing morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Djambarrpuyngu NERFINISHED
Manggalili NERFINISHED
Ngandi
Wägilak NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity small population
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code rit
isPartOf Yolŋu Matha continuum NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy Ritharrŋu people NERFINISHED
isSpokenIn Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
Northern Territory NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars of Yolŋu languages
isTaughtIn some community language programs
isUsedFor ceremonial contexts
oral tradition
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Yolŋu languages NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
region Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
state Northern Territory NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Djambarrpuyngu hasDialect Ritharrŋu
Yolngu Matha hasPart Ritharrŋu
this entity surface form: Ritharrngu