Manyallaluk Mayali

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Manyallaluk Mayali is a regional dialect of the Bininj Kunwok language spoken by Aboriginal communities in western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Manyallaluk Mayali canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language variety
dialect
associatedWith Manyallaluk community
belongsToEthnicGroup Bininj
closelyRelatedTo Kunbarlang dialect
linked to: Kunbarlang language

Kundjeyhmi dialect
Kune dialect
Kunwinjku dialect
country Australia
culturalRegion Arnhem Land
endangeredStatus endangered
hasAlternativeName Manyallaluk variety of Mayali
hasAncestor Proto-Gunwinyguan
hasDomain ceremonial language
kinship terminology
traditional ecological knowledge
hasLinguisticFeature complex verb morphology
noun class system
prefixing morphology
hasLinguisticType polysynthetic language
hasOrthographicStandard Bininj Kunwok community orthography
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticStatus primarily spoken, limited written use
hasStatus minority language variety
hasTransmissionPattern intergenerational transmission under pressure from English
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
inContactWith Australian English
Kriol
isPartOf Indigenous languages of Australia
Indigenous languages of the Northern Territory
isSpokenNear Katherine region of the Northern Territory
isSubjectOf Bininj Kunwok language documentation projects
isUsedIn community education programs in western Arnhem Land
languageFamily Bininj Kunwok dialect cluster
Gunwinyguan languages
partOf Bininj Kunwok language continuum
regionType regional dialect
spokenBy Aboriginal communities in western Arnhem Land
Bininj people
spokenIn Australia
Northern Territory
Western Arnhem Land
linked to: Arnhem Land
subdivisionOf Bininj Kunwok
usedFor cultural practices
everyday communication in local Aboriginal communities
oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bininj Kunwok hasDialect Manyallaluk Mayali
Bininj people speakLanguage Manyallaluk Mayali
Gunwingguan languages hasMember Manyallaluk Mayali