Garig-Ilgar language
| Garig–Ilgar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory |
| Ethnicity | Ilgar, Gaari |
| Extinct | 2003[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ilg |
| Glottolog | gari1253 |
| AIATSIS[2] | N184 Ilgar, N188 Garig |
| ELP | Ilgar |
Garig-Ilgar, after its two dialects, is an extinct Iwaidjan language spoken in the mainland of Cobourg Peninsula, around Port Essington, Northern Territory.
Phonology
Consonant inventory
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p | k | c | t | ʈ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
| Approximant | w | ɣ | j | ɻ | |
| Trill | r | ||||
| Flap | ɽ | ||||
| Lateral | (ʎ) | l | ɭ | ||
| Lateral flap | (ʎ̮) | ɺ ⟨ld⟩ | 𝼈 ⟨rld⟩ | ||
Unlike many Australian languages, Ilgar does not have lamino-alveolars.
Vowels
Evans (1998) briefly discusses vowels in his paper noting that Iwaidjan languages including Ilgar have a three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system typical of most Australian languages.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Low | a | |
References
- ^ Garig–Ilgar at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ N184 Ilgar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ Evans, Nicholas (1998). "Iwaidja mutation and its origins". In Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song. Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 115–149.
- ^ Nicholas Evans, 2000. "Iwaidjan, a very un-Australian language family." In Linguistic Typology, 4:99-100.
Further reading
- Evans, N. (2007). Pseudo-argument affixes in Iwaidja and Ilgar: a case of deponent subject and object agreement. In M. Baerman, G. G. Corbett, D. Brown, & A. Hippisley (Eds.), Deponency and morphological mismatches (pp. 271–296). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Evans, N. (1994). Ilgar Field Notes, Recorded from Charlie Wardaga.