| Lardil | ||
|---|---|---|
| Leerdil | ||
| Spoken in | Bentinck Island, north west Mornington Island, Queensland | |
| Total speakers | less than 10 | |
| Language family | Macro-Pama-Nyungan
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | lbz | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Lardil or Leerdil is a nearly extinct Tangkic language spoken on Mornington Island, Queensland.
Initiated Lardil males were using Damin, the only click language outside of Africa.
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Sounds
Note that APA notation is used, here and throughout.
Vowels
The Lardil vowel inventory consists of four contrastive dorsal positions, without labial contrasts.
| Front | Back | |
| High | i | u |
| Low | e | a |
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | |
| Plosive | p | t̪ | t | k | |
| Nasal | m | n | ṇ | ŋ | |
| Rhotic | r | ṛ | |||
| Lateral | l |
In addition, Lardil has the glide /w/, and /t/ has a contrastive palatalized /ty/.
Vocabulary examples
- woman: pirŋen
- arm: wanka
- red rock cod: yupur
- mother's father: tyempe
- husband: yukar
- kookaburra: t̪alkur
- bush mango: wiwal
References
- Dixon, R. M. W. 1980. The Languages of Australia.
- Evans, Nicholas (with Paul Memmott and Robin Horsman). 1990. Chapter 16: Travel and communication. In P. Memmott & R. Horsman, A changing culture. The Lardil Aborigines of Mornington Island. Social Sciences Press, Wentworth Falls, NSW.
- Hale, Kenneth L. 1967. Some Productive Rules in Lardil (Mornington Island) Syntax, pp.63-73 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 2, ed. by C.G. von Brandenstein, A. Capell, and K. Hale. Pacific Linguistics Series A, No. 11.
- Hale, Kenneth L. . 1973. Deep-Surface Canonical Disparities in Relation to Analysis and Change.
- Hale, Kenneth L. and D. Nash. 1997. Damin and Lardil Phonotactics.
- McKnight, D. 1999. People, Countries and the Rainbow Serpent.
- Memmott, P., N. Evans and R. Robinsi Understanding Isolation and Change in Island Human Population though a study of Indigenous Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- Ngakulmungan Kangka Leman and K.L. Hale. 1997. Lardil dictionary : a vocabulary of the language of the Lardil people, Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland: with English-Lardil finder list. Gununa, Qld, Mornington Shire Council. ISBN 0 646 29052 5
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