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Matngele

Region Northern Territory, Australia

Ethnicity Madngella, Yunggor

Extinct by 2006 censusaiatsis
perhaps 1 reported 1973; perhaps 10 reported 1990

Language family

Eastern Daly

Matngele

Writing system

Latin

AIATSIS N12

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Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory spoken by the Madngella and Yunggor peoples.

Classification
Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
Grammar

Classification

Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990).

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ɵ
Low			a

Consonants

		Peripheral		Laminal	Apical
		Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	Voiceless	p	k	c	t
Stop	Voiced	b	ɡ	ɟ	d
Nasal		m	ŋ	ɲ	n
Lateral				ʎ	l
Rhotic					r	ɻ
Semivowel		w		j

Grammar

Matngele has only five simple verbs. These must be combined with coverbs in order to form complex verbs.

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