Yalarnnga
Yalarnnga was a Pama-Nyungan language once spoken in Australia.
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Yalarnnga (also Jalarnnga, Jalanga, Yelina, Yellunga, Yellanga, Yalarrnnga, Yalanga or Yalluna) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family, that may be related to the Kalkatungu language. It was formerly spoken by the Yalarnnga people in areas near the Gulf of Carpentaria the towns of Dajarra and Cloncurry in far northwestern Queensland. The last native speaker died in 1980. It is a suffixing agglutinative language with no attested prefixes.
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Words in Yalarnnga
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | tarkuru* | |
| eye | mili* | |
| ear | pinari* | |
| nose | yityi* | |
| tooth | yirali* | |
| tongue | maLi* | |
| hand | wa5i* | |
| blood | Nurki* | |
| bone | tuka* | |
| skin | mapira* | |
| knee | purupuru* | |
| breast | mimi* | |
| liver | Narkati* | |
| water | kunhu | |
| fire | watyani* | |
| sun | miya* | |
| star | puturuNu* | |
| stone | mukulu* | |
| mountain | mukulu* | |
| leaf | ki5tyaLa* | |
| night | miyawaru* | |
| dog | maNuru* | |
| fish | wakari* | |
| one | Nururu* | |
| two | katyimpa* | |
| I | Natu* | |
| you | 4awa* | |
| we | Nawa* | |
| drink | tima* | |
| see | na* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Grammar
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · yala1262 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ylr