Kungkari_language

Kungkari language

Kungkari language

Extinct Australian Aboriginal language

Not to be confused with Gunggari language.

Kungkari (also Gunggari, Koonkerri, Kuungkari) is an extinct and unclassified Australian Aboriginal language.[1] The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.[2]

Quick Facts Native to, Extinct ...

Classification

Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.

Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language.[3]: 247 

Wafer and Lissarrague (2008)[4]: 324  report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990)[5]: 22–64  is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Peripheral, Laminal ...
  • The dental lateral [l̪] mainly occurs as an allophone of /l/ within the consonant cluster /lt̪/.
  • /t/ may be realized as a voiced stop [d] when after /n/, or as a voiced tap [ɾ] in intervocalic positions.

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
  • The long [uː] only rarely occurs.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    L38 Kungkari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. [2]
    This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Kuungkari published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 25 May 2022.
  3. [3]
    Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. (eds.). Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021.
  4. [4]
    Wafer, Jim; Lissarrague, Amanda (2008). A Handbook of Aboriginal Languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative.
  5. [5]
    Breen, Gavan (1990). Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages (PDF). Pacific Linguistics B-105. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.


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