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Nhanda language

Nhanda
Nanda, Nhanta, Nhandi
Native toAustralia
RegionGeraldton to Shark Bay area of Western Australia
EthnicityNhanda
Extinctby 1975[1]
Revival11-50 (2018-19)[1]
Dialects
  • Nhanta
  • Watchandi
  • Amangu
  • ? Ngukaja / Naaguja
Language codes
ISO 639-3nha
Glottolognhan1238
AIATSIS[2]W14
ELPNhanta
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Nhanda, also rendered Nanda, Nhanta and Nhandi, is an Australian Aboriginal language from the Midwest region of Western Australia, between Geraldton and the Murchison River, from the coast to about 20 kilometres (12 miles) inland. The language is now spoken, or semi-spoken, by only a few people.

The AIATSIS Austlang database says: "According to [Juliette] Blevins (2001:3) three dialects of Nhanda can be identified: Nhanda, the northernmost dialect, Watchandi W13, the central dialect, and Amangu W12, the southern dialect. Thus Nhanda is both a language name and a dialect name". No speakers are listed in successive tallies since 1975, but the Irra Wangga Language Centre (formerly Yamaji Language Centre) has been working on its revival, originally led by Blevins.[1] Nanakarti was apparently a distinct language.

While Nhanda is usually considered a member of the Kartu branch of the Pama–Nyungan family,[3] distinctive features of Nhanda, relative to neighbouring languages have caused some linguists to question this classification,[4][5] and/or classify Nhanda as an isolate.

A controversial hypothesis, first raised by historian Rupert Gerritsen, suggests that the unusual features of Nhanda may result from undocumented language contact during the early modern era, with Dutch – in the form of shipwrecked seafarers stranded in Australia before European settlement had officially begun.[6] Gerritsen's hypothesis has been rejected by linguist Juliette Blevins,[7] an authority on Nhanda. Gerritsen critiqued the rejection of his views by Blevins in a subsequent paper, re-outlining his evidence of Dutch influence on Nhanda.[8]

Vocabulary

The Nhanda word for 'man, human being' is arnmanu. It appears that when Norman Tindale collected information on Nhanda (or on the closely related variety thought to have been spoken in Geraldton) he was given this word, which he recorded as 'Amangu' and believed to be the 'tribal name' for this group. Blevins provides a word list at the end of her grammar.[9]

Phonology

Nhanda differs somewhat from its neighbouring languages in that it has a phonemic glottal stop, is initial-dropping (i.e. it has lost many initial consonants, leading to vowel-initial words) and the stop consonants show a phonemic length contrast.

Vowels

Front Back
High i iː u uː
Low a aː
  • An unstressed /a/ can be realised as [ə] or [ʌ].

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical Glottal
Bilabial Velar Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Stop voiceless p k c ⟨th⟩ t ʈ ⟨rt⟩ ʔ ⟨'⟩
voiced b ɡ ɟ ⟨j⟩ ⟨dh⟩ d ɖ ⟨rd⟩
Nasal m ŋ ⟨ng⟩ ɲ ⟨ny⟩ ⟨nh⟩ n ɳ ⟨rn⟩
Lateral ʎ ⟨ly⟩ ⟨lh⟩ l ɭ ⟨rl⟩
Rhotic r ⟨rr⟩ ɻ ⟨r⟩
Semivowel w j ⟨y⟩ ( ⟨yh⟩)

Grammar

Nhanda is a split-ergative language, meaning the nominals take an ergative-absolutive case system while the pronominals take a nominative-accusative one.

Case Suffix Nasal Suffix
Ergative -lu -nngu
Absolutive
Nominative
Accusative -nha -nha
Instrumental -lu -nngu
Locative -gu -nngu
Locative path -galu -nngalu
Allative -nngu -nngu
Ablative -ngu -ngu
Dative -wu -wu

ngayi

1.SG

nyina-nhaa

sit-NPAST

mambu-gu

bone-LOC

ngayi nyina-nhaa mambu-gu

1.SG sit-NPAST bone-LOC

I'm sitting on a bone

Nhanda distinguishes singular (unmarked), dual (-thada), and plural forms (-nu). The dual suffix is a reduced form of wuthada ('two'). If a plural suffix is applied to a root that ends with an u, base-final umlaut is triggered and the u becomes an i. Case and number suffixes have free order.[9]

There are no true unbound third person pronouns in Nhanda.

Unbound Pronouns
Person Singular Dual Plural
1st ngayi ngayi-thada ngayi-nu
2nd nyini nyini-thada nyini-nu

Bound pronouns, however, are a different case.

Bound pronouns
Direct Object Subject Oblique
1SG -nha -wa -tha
1DU,PL -wana -wana -wana
2SG -mda -nyja -nygu
2DU,PL
3SG unmarked unmarked -ra
3DU,PL -ndha

Nhanda verbs consist of a root followed by zero or more derivational suffixes. The two major conjugation classes are called NH and Y. There is no dominant word order.

Major conjugational classes[9]
NH Y
Past -nhii Past Perfective -i
Past Imperfective -nu
Non-past -nhaa Present -a
Future Realis -ndha
Future Irrealis -nda, -ndha Future Irrealis -nda, -ndha
Imperative -ga, ∅ Imperative -ga
Ambulative -nggula Ambulative -nggula

Language revival

Juliette Blevins, at the time employed at the University of Western Australia, researched Nhanda in the 1990s and early 2000s in collaboration with the Yamaji Language Centre (now the Irra Wangga Language Centre) and published a grammar of the language.[9] An illustrated topical dictionary, Nhanda Wangganhaa, was published by the Yamaji Language Centre in 1998.[10] Other published works include papers on its phonology and history.[11] Doug Marmion has also been working on the language.[1]

References

Cited references

  1. ^ a b c d "W14: Nhanda / Nanda^". Austlang. AIATSIS. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ W14 Nhanda at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  4. ^ Blevins, Juliette (December 1999). "Nhanta and its position within Pama–Nyungan". Oceanic Linguistics. 38 (2). University of Hawai'i Press: 297–320. doi:10.2307/3623295. JSTOR 3623295.
  5. ^ Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method
  6. ^ Gerristen, Rupert (1994). And their ghosts may be heard. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
  7. ^ Blevins, Juliette (1998). "A Dutch influence on Nhanda? Wanyjidaga innga!". Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: 43–46.
  8. ^ Dutch influence on Nhanda
  9. ^ a b c d Blevins, Juliette (2001). Nhanda: An aboriginal language of Western Australia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780824823757.
  10. ^ Yamaji Language Centre (1998). Nhanda Wangganhaa = Talking Nhanda: an illustrated wordlist of the Nhanda language of Western Australia. Geraldton, Western Australia: Yamaji Language Centre. p. 62. ISBN 9781875661015.
  11. ^ "Midwest Languages: Nhanda". Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

Other references

  • Blevins, Juliette; Marmion, Doug (1994). "Nhanta historical phonology". Australian Journal of Linguistics. 14 (2): 193–216. doi:10.1080/07268609408599509.
  • Blevins, Juliette; Marmion, Doug (1995). "Nhanta glottal stop". Oceanic Linguistics. 34 (1). University of Hawai'i Press: 139–160. doi:10.2307/3623116. JSTOR 3623116.


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