Nyangumarta
Nyangumarta is a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Australia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Nyangumarta, also written Njaŋumada, Njangamada, Njanjamarta and other variants, is a language spoken by the Nyangumarta people and other Aboriginal Australians in the region of Western Australia to the south and east of Lake Waukarlykarly, including Eighty Mile Beach, and part of the Great Sandy Desert inland to near Telfer. As of 2021 there were an estimated 240 speakers of Nyangumarta, down from a 1975 estimate of 1000.
It has two dialects: Ngurlipartu and Wanyarli. It is the most widely spoken Aboriginal language in the town of Port Hedland.
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Words in Nyangumarta
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | marNu* | |
| name | yini* | |
| eye | pani* | |
| ear | kulka* | |
| nose | milya* | |
| tooth | rira* | |
| tongue | Tali5* | |
| hand | parir* | |
| blood | piTiri* | |
| bone | ku5Ta* | |
| skin | kanu* | |
| knee | kaNku* | |
| breast | Nama* | |
| liver | ralyuralyu* | |
| water | Napa* | |
| fire | wika* | |
| sun | Ta5Ta* | |
| star | panikata* | |
| stone | wanku* | |
| tree | muNka* | |
| leaf | parka* | |
| night | warukati* | |
| dog | yukuru* | |
| fish | kapi* | |
| louse | palu* | |
| one | waraTa* | |
| two | kuTara* | |
| I | NaTu* | |
| you | 5untu* | |
| we | Na5Turu* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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