Wangurri

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Wangurri is a Yolŋu Aboriginal Australian language variety spoken by the Wangurri people of northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language variety
Yolŋu language variety
associatedWith Wangurri clan NERFINISHED
continent Australia
country Australia
culturalContext Yolŋu kinship system
Yolŋu law (Madayin) NERFINISHED
ethnicGroupAssociated Wangurri people NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED
Proto-Yolŋu NERFINISHED
hasDialects clan-based varieties
hasDomain songlines and ceremonial knowledge
traditional ecological knowledge
hasLexicalRelation mutual intelligibility with other Yolŋu varieties
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
case marking on nouns
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive lamino-dental and lamino-palatal consonants
three-vowel system
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
verb-final tendency
indigenousTo Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
Northern Territory NERFINISHED
isIndigenousLanguageOf Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
Northern Territory NERFINISHED
languageEndangermentFactor shift to English
shift to other dominant Yolŋu varieties
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages NERFINISHED
Yolŋu languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus endangered
locatedIn Northern Territory
partOf Yolŋu linguistic continuum NERFINISHED
region northeast Arnhem Land
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Wangurri people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Aboriginal communities of northeast Arnhem Land
subclassOf Yolŋu Matha NERFINISHED
usedFor ceremonial speech
song cycles
traditional stories
usedIn Wangurri clan lands
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 Wangurri
Yolngu Matha hasPart Wangurri