Nakkara language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Nakkara |
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Region | Northern Territory |
Ethnicity | Nagara people |
Native speakers | 58 (2016 census) |
Language family |
Macro-Gunwinyguan
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AIATSIS | N80 |
Nakkara (Na-kara) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Nagara people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It is also spelled Nakara or Nagara and also called Kokori.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Apical | Laminal | Dorsal | ||
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Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
Stop | b | d | ɖ | ɟ | g |
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ |
Lateral | l | ɭ | |||
Rhotic | r/ɾ | ɽ | |||
Semivowel | w | j |
Stops have both voiced and voiceless allophones, depending on their position in the word. Furthermore, a stop length variation is present, which is only contrastive in morpheme-medial positions. This can be interpreted as either gemination, or as evidence for the existence of two separate stop series, with a suprasegmental hypothesis being mostly ruled out.
The tapped and trilled allophones of /r/ are in free variation.
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
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