Wangurri
E925802
Wangurri is a Yolŋu Aboriginal Australian language variety spoken by the Wangurri people of northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Statements (41)
| 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
|
Referenced by (3)
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