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Bungandidj is a language of Australia, spoken by the Bungandidj people, Indigenous Australians who lived in an area which is now in south-eastern South Australia and in south-western Victoria. According to Christina Smith and her book on the Buandig people, the Bungandidj called their language drualat-ngolonung (speech of man), or Booandik-ngolo (speech of the Booandik).[3] As of 2017, there is a revival and maintenance programme under way for the language.[4]

Bungandidj
Buwandik
Region	South-east South Australia South-west Victoria
Ethnicity	Bungandidj
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Southeastern Victorian Kulin–Bungandidj Bungandidj
Dialects	Bungandidj Pinejunga Mootatunga Wichintunga Polinjunga[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xbg
Glottolog	bung1264
AIATSIS[2]	S13
ELP	Buandig

Historical variants of the name include: Bunganditj, Bungandaetch, Bunga(n)daetcha, Bungandity, Bungandit, Buganditch, Bungaditj, Pungantitj, Pungatitj, Booganitch, Buanditj, Buandik, Booandik, Boandiks, Bangandidj, Bungandidjk, Pungandik, Bak-on-date, Barconedeet, Booandik-ngolo, Borandikngolo, Bunganditjngolo, and Burhwundeirtch.

Phonology

Bungandidj phonology is typical of Australian languages generally, sharing characteristics such as a single series of stops (no voicing contrast) at six places of articulation, a full corresponding set of nasals, laminals at all four coronal places of articulation and two glides.[5] Extrapolating from historical written sources and knowledge of surrounding languages, Blake posits the following consonant inventory:[5]

Consonants

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Dental	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	p [p]	k [k]	th	tj [c]	t [t]	rt [ʈ ]
Nasal	m [m]	ng [ŋ]	nh	ny [ɲ]	n [n]	rn [ɳ ]
Flap/Trill					rr [r]
Lateral			lh	ly [ʎ]	l [l]	rl [ɭ ]
Approximant	w [w]			y [j]		r [ɻ ]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i [i]		u [u]
Open		a [a]

Notes on orthography

• Early descriptions of Bungandidj made no distinction between the trill/flap /r/ and approximant /ɻ/ and evidence for this contrast is based on comparative evidence only. Blake transcribes both as ⟨r⟩.[5]
• Although there is no voicing distinction, stops are transcribed with voiced symbols ⟨b, g, dh, d, rd⟩ in homorganic nasal-stop clusters (where voicing is expected).[5]
• Syllable-final palatals are transcribed with the digraphs ⟨yt, yn, yl⟩ to avoid a final -y being confused with a vowel.[5]
• Historical sources include five vowel graphemes including ⟨e⟩ and ⟨o⟩, however it is likely that ⟨e⟩ belongs to the /i/ phoneme and ⟨o⟩ belongs to the /o/ phoneme. However, Blake conservatively retains some ⟨e⟩ and ⟨o⟩ segments where they are consistently transcribed in this way across historical sources.

A poem

Smith (1880), on pages 138–139, records a poem written in Bungandidj :[3]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Bungandidj language

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[es] Idioma bungandidj

Bungandidj es un idioma de Australia, hablado por el pueblo Bungandidj, australianos indígenas que vivían en un área que ahora se encuentra en el sureste de Australia del Sur y en el suroeste Victoria. Según Christina Smith y su libro sobre la gente de Buandig, los Bungandidj llamaron a su idioma drualat-ngolonung (habla del hombre), o Booandik-ngolo. (discurso del Booandik).[1] As of 2017, there is a revival and maintenance programme under way for the language.[2]

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