Ngadjunmaya language explained

Ngadjunmaya
Also Known As:	Ngadjumaya
States:	Australia
Region:	Goldfields-Esperance; Eyre’s Sand Patch, Goddard Creek to Port Malcolm, to Fraser Range, to Naretha and Point Culver, at Mount Andres, Russell Range, Balladonia, and Norseman
Ethnicity:	Ngadjunmaia, ?Murunitja
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Australian
Fam1:	Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:	Mirning
Iso3:	nju
Glotto:	ngad1258
Glottorefname:	Ngadjunmaya
Aiatsis:	A3
Speakers2:	"very few" (2008)
Extinct:	"probably recently extinct" as of 2007

Ngadjunmaya, correctly known as Ngadjumaya, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region.

Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjumaya or of Mirning.

Phonology

Three vowels with length are present:

	Front	Back
High	pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
Low	pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/

/i/ can also be heard as pronounced as /link/ before a velar /k/, and as [{{IPAlink|ɛ}} ~ {{IPAlink|æ}}] before palatal sounds /ʎ, j/.
/a/ can also be heard as pronounced as /link/ when following sounds /w, j/, and as pronounced as /link/ when following /k/.
/u/ can also be heard as fronted pronounced as /link/ when preceding /j/.

/ɽ/ can be heard as either a tap pronounced as /link/ or a glide pronounced as /link/.
/r/ can be heard as either a trill pronounced as /link/ or a tap pronounced as /link/.
/k/ can also have a voiced allophone of pronounced as /link/ when in word-medial positions.^[1]

Book: von Brandenstein, C. G. . Ngadjumaja: An Aboriginal Language of South-East Western Australia . Innsbruck: AMOE . 1980.