Yinggarda language

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The Yinggarda language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Yinggarda (Yamatji) people of Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yinggarda language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
endangered language
AIATSISCode W11
belongsTo Aboriginal languages of Western Australia
continent Oceania
country Australia
culturalAssociation Yamatji cultural heritage
Yinggarda traditional stories and songs
ethnicGroup Yamatji people
Yinggarda people
hasAlternativeName Inggarda
Yingarda
Yinggarda (Yamatji)
Yingkarta
hasDocumentation audio recordings
grammatical descriptions
wordlists
hasGlottocode ying1248
hasGlottologName Yinggarda
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
suffixing language
hasMorphology ergative–absolutive alignment (typical of many Pama–Nyungan languages)
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive length in consonants and vowels (typical of Pama–Nyungan)
three-vowel system
hasRevitalizationEffort community language programs
language teaching in local schools (intermittent)
hasWordOrder flexible word order
ISO639-3 yia
isPartOf Kartu subgroup of Pama–Nyungan
isRelatedTo Badimaya language
Malgana language
Nhanda language
Wajarri language
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan
region Gascoyne
Mid West region of Western Australia
spokenIn Australia
Gascoyne region
Western Australia
status moribund
severely endangered
subfamily Kartu languages
traditionalArea Gascoyne River region
around Carnarvon, Western Australia
usedBy Yinggarda community in Carnarvon area
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

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

Yamatji people hasLanguage Yinggarda language
Wajarri language hasLinguisticNeighbour Yinggarda language