Ngaygungu language

Ngaygungu
Ngaygungu
aka Ngȋ-koong-ō
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Extinct	last attested 1938
Language family	Pama–Nyungan ? (unclassified, probably Maric) Ngaygungu; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None
AIATSIS	Y216

Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō^[3]) is a sleeping,^[4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,^[3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.^[2]

Phonology

Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels^[3]

ă	ā	ȃ	ĕ	ē	ĭ	ī	ȋ	ŏ	ō	oo

each pronounced as in English were the English vowels a, e, i, o to be marked^[3] for length.

Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows:^[3]

b	ch	g	j	k	m	n	ny	ng	r	t	y

each pronounced as they would be in English.

^ ^a ^b Y216 Ngaygungu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ ^a ^b RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roth, Walter Edmund (1898), Some ethnological notes on the Atherton blacks (October 1898), Cooktown: Queensland Home Secretarys Department, Office of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals
^ Wesley, Leonard Y. (2008), "When Is an "Extinct Language" Not Extinct?" (PDF), Susataining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: 23–34

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