Kungkari (also Gunggari, Koonkerri, Kuungkari) is an extinct and unclassified Australian Aboriginal language.[1] The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.[2]
Kungkari | |
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Kuungkari of Barcoo River | |
Native to | Australia |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lku |
Glottolog | kuun1236 |
AIATSIS[1] | L38 |
ELP | Kungkari |
Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.
Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language.[3]: 247
Wafer and Lissarrague (2008)[4]: 324 report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990)[5]: 22–64 is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.[3]
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
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Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
Plosive | p | k | t̪ | c | t | ʈ |
Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
Rhotic | r | |||||
Lateral | (l̪) | ʎ | l | ɭ | ||
Approximant | w | j | ɻ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i iː | u (uː) | |
Low | a aː |