Malgana language
Malgana is the Aboriginal Australian language of the Malgana people. It is one of the Kartu languages of the Pama–Nyungan family of languages.
| Malgana | |
|---|---|
| Region | Shark Bay area of Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Malgana people |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vml |
| Glottolog | malg1242 |
| AIATSIS[1] | W18 |
| ELP | Malkana[2] |
Malgana country is the area around Shark Bay in Western Australia. In particular it includes the Peron and Edel Land Peninsulas as well as some of the adjoining land. The Irra Wangga Language Centre[3] (having taken over from the Yamaji Language Centre) has been carrying out work on the Malgana language since 1995 and has produced an illustrated wordlist as well as grammatical materials and a dictionary (the latter two unpublished).
'Buluguda', 'Damala', and 'Watjanti' were likely Malgana-speaking locations or social groupings, rather than dialects.
References
- W18 Malgana at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Endangered Languages Project data for Malkana.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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