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Ngadjunmaya correctly known as Ngadjumaya is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region.

Ngadjunmaya
Native toAustralia
RegionGoldfields-Esperance; Eyre’s Sand Patch, Goddard Creek to Port Malcolm, to Fraser Range, to Naretha and Point Culver, at Mount Andres, Russell Range, Balladonia, and Norseman
EthnicityNgadjunmaia, ?Murunitja
Native speakers
"very few speakers" (2008);[1] "probably recently extinct" (2007)[2]
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
  • Mirning
    • Ngadjunmaya
Language codes
ISO 639-3nju
Glottologngad1258
AIATSIS[1]A3

Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjumaya or of Mirning.


Phonology



Vowels


Three vowels with length are present:

Front Central Back
High i iː u uː
Low a aː

Consonants


Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Dental Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Stop p k c t ʈ
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n ɳ
Lateral ʎ l ɭ
Rhotic r ɽ
Approximant w j

References


  1. A3 Ngadjunmaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Ngadjunmaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. von Brandenstein, C. G. (1980). Ngadjumaja: An Aboriginal Language of South-East Western Australia. Innsbruck: AMOE.





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