Wangkangurru or Wangganguru/ˈwʌŋɡəŋˈʊəruː/[3] is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. It was a dialect of Arabana spoken by the Wangkangurru people.
Wangganguru had the full range of consonants of the prototypical Australian language. Several of the nasals and laterals were allophonically prestopped.[4]
Peripheral
Laminal
Apical
Bilabial
Velar
Palatal
Dental
Alveolar
Retroflex
Stop
p
k
c
t̪
t
ʈ
Nasal
m~bm
ŋ
ɲ
n̪~d̪n̪
n~dn
ɳ
Lateral
ʎ
l̪~d̪l̪
l~dl
ɭ
Vibrant
r ɾ
Approximant
w
j
ɻ
^Wangkangurru at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^L27 Wangkangurru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
^Jeff Mielke, 2008. The emergence of distinctive features, p 135
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