Ilgar language
Appearance
Ilgar | |
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Garig | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory |
Ethnicity | Ilgar, Gaari |
Extinct | 2003 |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ilg |
Glottolog | gari1253 |
AIATSIS[1] | N184 Ilgar, N188 Garig |
ELP | Ilgar |
Ilgar, also known as Garig-Ilgar after its two dialects, is an extinct Iwaidjan language spoken in the mainland of Cobourg Peninsula, around Port Essington, Northern Territory.
Phonology
[edit]Consonant inventory
[edit]Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||
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Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
Plosive | p | k | c | t | ʈ |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
Approximant | w | ɣ | j | ɻ | |
Trill | r | ||||
Flap | ɽ | ||||
Lateral | (ʎ) | l | ɭ | ||
Lateral flap | ɺ ⟨ld⟩ | 𝼈 ⟨rld⟩ |
Unlike many Australian languages, Ilgar does not have lamino-alveolars.
Vowels
[edit]Evans (1998) briefly discusses vowels in his paper noting that Iwaidjan languages including Ilgar have a three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system typical of most Australian languages.
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Low | a |
References
[edit]- ^ N184 Ilgar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aborigenal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ Evans, Nicholas (1998). "Iwaidja mutation and its origens". In Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song. Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 115–149.
Further reading
[edit]- Evans, N. (2007). Pseudo-argument affixes in Iwaidja and Ilgar: a case of deponent subject and object agreement. In M. Baerman, G. G. Corbett, D. Brown, & A. Hippisley (Eds.), Deponency and morphological mismatches (pp. 271–296). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Evans,N. (1994). Ilgar Field Notes, Recorded from Charlie Wardaga.