Mirning language

Mirning
Mirning
Ngandatha
Native to	Australia
Region	Western Australia
Ethnicity	Mirning, ?Murunitja
Native speakers	4 (2005)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Mirning languages Mirning; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gmr
Glottolog	mirn1245
AIATSIS	A9
ELP	Mirniny
	Languages of South Australia.

Mirning (Mirniny) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia.

Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Mirning or of its sister language Ngadjunmaya.^[2]

Phonology

/c/ may also occur as a dental stop [t̪] among speakers.

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Low		a aː

/a/ may also range to a back vowel [ɑ].

^ Tribal boundaries, after Tindale (1974), adapted from Hercus (1999).
^ ^a ^b ^c A9 Mirning at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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