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Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō) is a sleeping, 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, later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.

Phonology

Vowels

Ngȋ-koong-ō has the following vowels

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

Consonants

Ngȋ-koong-ō has twelve consonants as follows:

each pronounced as they would be in English.

See also

• Ngaygungu people

References

1. ^ Y216 Ngaygungu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. ^ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
3. ^ 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
4. 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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