Kalkatungu language

Kalkatungu language

Infobox Language
name=Kalkatungu
region=Mount Isa area, Queensland, Australia
extinct=?
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Pama-Nyungan
fam2=Galgadungic
iso2=aus
iso3=ktg

Kalkatungu (also written Kalkutungu, Galgadungu, Kalkutung, Kalkadoon, Galgaduun) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken around the area of Mount Isa, Queensland.

Classification

Kalkatungu is usually grouped with Yalarnnga as the Kalkatungic or Galgadungic branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. R. M. W. Dixon (2002), however, regards Kalkatungic as simply an areal group.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

References

*cite book |last=Blake |first=B. J. |year=1979 |title=A Kalkatungu grammar |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics
*cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2002 |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ktg Ethnologue report for language code:ktg]


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