Yolngu Matha
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| Yolngu Matha | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Total speakers: | ||
| Language family: | Pama-Nyungan Yolngu Matha | |
| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | variously: dji — Djinang dhg — Dhangu duj — Dhuwal djb — Djinba | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Yolŋu Matha is the language group of the Yolngu (Yolŋu), the Indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia. (Yolŋu = people, Matha = tongue).
Yolŋu Matha is comprised of twelve different dialects, each with its own Yolŋu name. While there is extensive variation between these dialects, there is generally common mutual intelligibility, hence the umbrella group of Yolngu Matha. The linguistic situation is very complicated, since each of the 25 or so clans also has a named language variety.
[edit] Dictionaries and Resources
Dictionaries have been produced by Beulah Lowe, David Zorc and Michael Christie.
There are also several grammars of Yolngu languages by Jeffry Heath, Frances Morphy, Melanie Wilkinson and others [1].
[edit] External References
- Aboriginal Resource and Development Services (ARDS) [2]
- Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Yolŋu Matha course [3]
- ARDS Rhombuy Dhäwu: Legal English-Yolngu Matha Online Dictionary [4]]
- Trudgen, Richard, Why Warriors Lie Down & Die [5], ARDS, Darwin, 2000.
- Examples of Yolngu Matha being spoken[6]
- Radio National story
- Watson, Helen and David Wade Chambers (with the Yolngu community at Yirrkala). Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Deakin University.
