| Wadjiginy | |
| Also Known As: | Wogait |
| Nativename: | Patjtjamalh |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Daly River |
| Ethnicity: | Wadjiginy |
| Speakers: | 5 |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Ref: | aiatsis |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Wagaydyic |
| Iso3: | wdj |
| Aiatsis: | N31 |
| Lingua: | 28-fbb-a |
| Glotto: | wadj1254 |
| Glottorefname: | Wadjiginy |
Wadjiginy, also known as Wagaydy (Wogait) and Batjamalh, is an Australian Aboriginal language. Apart from being closely related to Kandjerramalh, it is not known to be related to any other language, though it has borrowed grammatical and lexical material from neighboring Northern Daly languages.
Wadjiginy was spoken in the Northern Territory.
Wadjiginy (Wadyiginy, Wagaydy, Wogaity) is the name of the people; this native language is Patjtjamalh (Batjamalh, Batytyamalh).
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Stop | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Phoneme | Allophones | |
|---|---|---|
| /i/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| /ʊ/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| /ɛ/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| /ø/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| /a/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ |
Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items:[2]
| gloss | Woːgaidj | |
|---|---|---|
| man | ŋanan | |
| woman | ŋoalaŋ | |
| head | bödja | |
| eye | miba | |
| nose | widja | |
| mouth | ŋaːg | |
| tongue | ŋaːɖal | |
| stomach | bɛnman | |
| bone | big | |
| blood | gavin | |
| kangaroo | mudj | |
| opossum | dadjädaid | |
| crow | wagwag | |
| fly | mul | |
| sun | qeig | |
| moon | qaɽa | |
| fire | vin | |
| smoke | wingar | |
| water | wiːg | |
| damn | šgààÿp |