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Nukunu language

Nukunu is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language spoken by Nukunu people on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. As of 2017, there is a revival and maintenance programme under way for the language.

Names
This language has been known by many names by neighbouring tribes and Australianists, including: • Nukuna, Nokunna, Noocoona, Nookoona, Nuguna, Nukana, Nukunnu, Nukunu, Njuguna • Doora • Pukunna • Tjura, Tyura • Wallaroo, Warra • Wongaidya (from , present tense form of verb 'to speak') ==Classification==
Classification
s of South AustraliaNukunu is a Pama–Nyungan language, closely related to neighboring languages in the Miru cluster like Narungga, Kaurna, and Ngadjuri. ==Phonology==
Phonology
Vowels Nukunu has three different vowels with contrastive long and short lengths (a, i, u, a:, i:, u:). Consonants The Nukunu consonantal inventory is typical for a Pama–Nyungan language, with six places of articulation for stops and nasals. There are three rhotics in the language. A phonemic voicing contrast exists in Nukunu, but it has only been observed in the retroflex stop series. An example demonstrating such a contrast intervocalically is kurdi (phlegm, IPA ['kuɖi]) and kurti (quandong, IPA ['kuʈi]). History In contrast with other Thura–Yura languages, Nukunu did not partake in either the initial th- lenition before vowels or the lenition of initial k- before vowels. ==Notes==
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