Waga | |
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Wakawaka | |
Region | Queensland |
Ethnicity | Wakka Wakka, Djakunda, Dalla (Wulili, Baruŋgam) |
Extinct | 1965 |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wkw |
Glottolog | waka1274 |
AIATSIS[1] | E28 |
ELP | Waka-Waka |
Duungidjawu[2] |
The Wakka Wakka language, also spelt Waga, or Wakawaka, is an extinct Pama–Nyungan language formerly spoken by the Wakka Wakka people, an Aboriginal Australian nation near Brisbane, Australia.[3]
Kaiabara/Gayabara, Nguwera/Ngoera, and Buyibara may be varieties or alternative names.
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Map of traditional lands of Aboriginal Australians around Brisbane.
Phonology
Consonants
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||
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Labial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
Plosive | b | ɡ | ɟ | d | |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | |
Rhotic | r | ||||
Lateral | l | ||||
Approximant | w | j | ɻ |
- /l/ may occasionally be velarized as [ɫ].
- /l/ may also exist in the sequence /-lj-/, however; it is not realized as a palatal lateral sound [ʎ].
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː | |
Open | a aː |
References
- ^ E28 Waga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Duungidjawu.
- ^ Waka Waka - ATSIDA
- Kite, Suzanne; Wurm, Stephen (2004). The Duungidjawu Language of the Southeast Queensland: Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-550-4.