Yinggarda language

Yinggarda language

language
name=Yinggarda
familycolor=Australian
states=Australia
region=Gascoyne coast area of Western Australia
speakers=Possibly 1
fam2=Pama-Nyungan
fam3=Southwest
fam4=Kartu
iso2=aus|iso3=yia

Yinggarda is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Kartu languages of the large South-West branch of the Pama-Nyungan family.

Yinggarda country is around Carnarvon, on the central western coast of Western Australia, and extends inland to near Gascoyne Junction and south to around the mouth of the Wooramel River. A sketch grammar was written by Alan Dench, who has worked with some of the last speakers. The Yamaji Language Centre has been carrying out work on the Yinggarda language since 1993 and has collected materials for the eventual production of a small dictionary and a grammar.

'Yinggarda' has been spelled in a number of ways, some linguists (including Dench) writing it as 'Yingkarta'.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yia Ethnologue report on Yinggarda]


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