Mangarla language

Mangarla
Mangarla
Mangala
Native to	Australia
Region	Western Australia
Ethnicity	Mangala people
Native speakers	68 (2016 census)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Marrngu Mangarla; ;
Dialects	Juwarliny;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mem
Glottolog	mang1383
AIATSIS	A65
ELP	Mangala
	Mangarla is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Mangarla, also spelt Mangala, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It is spoken by the Mangarla people of the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert, inland from the coast.

Phoneme Inventory

Mangala's phoneme inventory is typical of Australian languages, and is identical to the inventories of the other Marrngu languages. There are 17 consonant phonemes.

	Peripheral		Apical		Laminal
	Bilabial	Velar	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal
Obstruents	p	k	t	ʈ	ɟ
Nasals	m	ŋ	n	ɳ	ɲ
Laterals			l	ɭ	ʎ
Rhotics			ɾ	ɻ
Approximants	w				j

/ɾ/ may also occasionally be heard as a trill [r].

Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

/i, u, a/ in unstressed syllables may be heard as [ɪ, ʊ, ə].

References

^ ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
^ A65 Mangarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Agnew, Brigitte Louise. 2020. The core of Mangarla grammar. University of Melbourne.

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[1] ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

[AIATSIS-2] A65 Mangarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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