Kayardild language
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| Kayardild | |
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| Kaiadilt | |
| Region | South Wellesley Islands, north west Queensland, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Kaiadilt, Yanggal |
Native speakers | 43 (2021 census)[1] |
Macro-Pama–Nyungan?
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| ISO 639-3 | gyd |
| Glottolog | kaya1319 |
| AIATSIS[1] | G35 Kayardild |
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Kayardild is a moribund Tangkic language spoken by 43 of the Kaiadilt on the South Wellesley Islands, north west Queensland, Australia. Other members of the family include Yangkaal (spoken by the Yangkaal people), Lardil, and Yukulta (Ganggalidda).
Kayardild is a critically endangered language, considered near-extinct.[3] In 1981, there were around fifty native speakers of Kayardild. The number of speakers of Kayardild significantly reduced since the 1940s as a result of the stolen generations.[4] By 1981, there were fifty known native speakers.[4] In the 2016 census, there were eight,[5] and this number increased to 43 in 2021.[1]
Phonology
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
| Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t | ʈ |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | ɳ |
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | |||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː |
| Open | a aː | |
Grammar
Kayardild is known for its many unusual case phenomena, including case stacking of up to four levels, the use of clause-level case to signal interclausal relations and pragmatic factors, and another set of 'verbal case' endings which convert their hosts from nouns into verbs morphologically. It is also well-known for only allowing subordination one level deep. Kayardild is the only known spoken language where tense markers appear on both nouns and verbs.[7]
Speakers tend to have a preference for subject–object–verb word order.[8]
References
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- ^ a b c G35 Kayardild at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxix. ISBN 0521473780.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kayardild". Glottolog 5.0. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wuethrich, Bernice (2000). "Learning the World's Languages: Before They Vanish". Science. 288 (5469): 1156–1159. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dorian, Nancy C. (2002). "Commentary: Broadening the Rhetorical and Descriptive Horizons in Endangered-Language Linguistics". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 12 (2): 134–140. doi:10.1525/jlin.2002.12.2.134. JSTOR 43104008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (1995). A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-012795-9.
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nick (1995a). "Current Issues in Australian languages". In Goldsmith, John A. (ed.). The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics (1st ed.). Blackwell. pp. 723–761.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (1995b). A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-012795-9.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (1988). "Odd topic marking in Kayardild". In Austin, Peter (ed.). Complex sentence constructions in Australian Languages. Typological Studies in Language. Vol. 15. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 219–266. doi:10.1075/tsl.15.11eva. ISBN 978-90-272-2887-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (1992). Kayardild Dictionary and Thesaurus. University of Melbourne: Department of Linguistics and Language Studies.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (1995c). "The Kayardild language". In Robinson, Julia (ed.). Voices of Queensland. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (1995d). "Multiple case in Kayardild: anti-iconicity and the diachronic filter". In Plank, F. (ed.). Double case. Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. Oxford University Press. pp. 396–428. ISBN 9780195087758.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (2001). "Typologies of agreement: some problems from Kayardild". Transactions of the Philological Society. 101 (2): 203–234. doi:10.1111/1467-968X.00118. hdl:1885/33294.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Nicholas (2006). "Kayardild". In Brown, Keith (ed.). Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 6. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 168–169.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Round, Erich (2009). Kayardild Morphology, Phonology, and Morphosyntax (PhD thesis). Yale University.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Round, Erich (2013). Kayardild Morphology and Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-965487-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Round, Erich; Corbett, Greville G. (2016). "The theory of feature systems: one feature versus two for Kayardild tense-aspect-mood". Morphology. 27 (1): 1–55. doi:10.1007/s11525-016-9294-3.
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