Panyjima language
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| Panyjima | ||
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| Spoken in: | Australia | |
| Region: | Pilbara region of Western Australia. | |
| Total speakers: | 50 | |
| Language family: | Australian Pama-Nyungan Southwest Panyjima Panyjima |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | pnw | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Panyjima is an indigenous language spoken in the Hamersley Ranges, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is one of the Ngayarda languages of the large Southwest branch of the Pama-Nyungan family.
Like many Australian Aboriginal Languages, Panyjima is an endangered language. Younger generations have English as a first language and make little distinction between Panyjima and its closely related neighbouring languages.
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[edit] Linguistic Features
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Phoneme Inventory
| bilabial | apico-alveolar | apico-post-alveolar | lamino-dental | lamino-palatal | dorso-velar | |
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| stop | p | t | rt | th | j | k |
| nasal | m | n | rn | nh | ny | ng |
| lateral | l | rl | lh | ly | ||
| rhotic | rr | r | ||||
| glide | w | y |
[edit] References
- Dench, A. (1991) Panyjima. In R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake (eds) The Handbook of Australian Languages Volume 4, 125-244 Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. ISBN 0-19-553097-7.
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