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Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō[3]) is a sleeping,[4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,[3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers[2]

Ngaygungu
aka Ngȋ-koong-ō
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Extinct	last attested 1938[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan ? (unclassified, probably Maric)[2] Ngaygungu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None
AIATSIS[1]	Y216

Phonology

Vowels

Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels[3]

ă

ā

ȃ

ĕ

ē

ĭ

ī

ȋ

ŏ

ō

oo

each pronounced as in English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be marked[3] for length.

Consonants

Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows:[3]

b

ch

g

j

k

m

n

ny

ng

r

t

y

each pronounced as they would be in English

See also

• Ngaygungu people

References

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