Amurdag language

Amurdag
Region	Oenpelli, Goulburn Island, Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Amarak
Extinct	by 2016, with the death of Charlie Mungulda[1]
Language family	Iwaidjan Amurdag;
Dialects	Urrirk; Gidjurra;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	amg
Glottolog	amar1271
AIATSIS[2]	N47
ELP	Amurdak[3]

Amurdag (also Amurdak, Amurag, Amarag, Wureidbug) is an Indigenous Australian language historically spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia. According to a report by the National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, it is an endangered language. There was the last living speaker, Charlie Mungulda, who had been working with Australian linguists Nick Evans, Robert Handelsmann and others, over the past several decades to record his language.[4] The Amurdag language was featured in Language Matters with Bob Holman, a 2015 PBS documentary about endangered languages.[5]

Phonology

Consonants

	Peripheral		Laminal	Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	p	k	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n	ɳ
Approximant	w	ɣ	j		ɻ
Trill				r
Flap					ɽ
Lateral			(ʎ)	l	ɭ
Lateral flap				ɺ ⟨ld⟩	 ⟨rld⟩

Evans but not Mailhammer identifies a palatal lateral /ʎ/ in Amurdag.

Vowels

Mailhammer (2009) does not provide a vowel inventory but Evans (1998) briefly discusses vowels in his paper, noting that Iwaidjan languages including Amurdak have a three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system.

References

"Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
N47 Amurdag at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Endangered Languages Project data for Amurdak.
Scientists: Many World Languages Are Dying Archived 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Associated Press via Fox News, 2007-09-18. Accessed 2007-09-19.
Language Matters with Bob Holman: A film by David Grubin, PBS, 2015-01-19. Accessed 2015-01-28.

External links

ELAR archive of Documentation of Amurdak (Amurdag)

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[1] "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

[AIATSIS-2] N47 Amurdag at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[ELP1-3] Endangered Languages Project data for Amurdak.

[4] Scientists: Many World Languages Are Dying Archived 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Associated Press via Fox News, 2007-09-18. Accessed 2007-09-19.

[5] Language Matters with Bob Holman: A film by David Grubin, PBS, 2015-01-19. Accessed 2015-01-28.