Maung language

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Maung
Gun-Marung
Native to
Goulburn Island, Arnhem Land
EthnicityMaung people
Native speakers
360 (2021 census)[1]
  • Iwaidjic
    • Maung
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3mph
Glottologmaun1240
AIATSIS[2]N64
ELPMawng

Maung (Mawung, Mawng, Gun-marung) is an

Non-Pama–Nyungan languages.[3] As of 2021, there were around 360 speakers of the language.[4]

Study of Maung has developed to the point where a dictionary, grammar and portions of the

Kunwinjku. Children are still acquiring it as a first language,[5]
making it somewhat healthier than most other aboriginal languages.

Phonology

Consonant inventory[3]
Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Postalveolar Alveolar Retroflex
Plosives p k tʲ
t
 ʈ
Nasals m ŋ nʲ
n
 ɳ
Laterals
l
 ɭ
Flaps ɾ ɽ
Approximants w ɣ j
ɹ
Vowel inventory
Front Central Back
High
 i u
Mid ɛ ɔ
Low
 a

The phonemic inventories provided here are from Capell's well-known 1970 work on Maung.[3] More recent papers (Singer 2006;[6] Teo 2007[7]) have only two rhotics to Capell's three. Teo lacks the alveolar flap, and Singer the retroflex flap. (In a minor difference, both describe the approximant as retroflex, whereas Capell describes it as alveolar.)

Grammar

Maung has five grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, vegetation, land, and edible.[8]

Alternative names

  • Kunmarung (
    exonym).[9]

References

  1. ^ "SBS Australian Census Explorer". Retrieved 9 Jan 2023.
  2. ^ N64 Maung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ a b c Capell, A. & Hinch, H. E. 1970 Maung grammar; texts and vocabulary / A. Capell and H.E. Hinch Mouton, The Hague :
  4. ^ "SBS Australian Census Explorer". Retrieved 9 Jan 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Maung". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019.
  6. ^ Singer, R. 2006 Agreement in Mawng: Productive and lexicalised uses of agreement in an Australian language: The University of Melbourne Melbourne :
  7. ^ Teo, A. 2007 Breaking up is hard to do: teasing apart morphological complexity in Iwaidja and Maung:
  8. ISBN 978-0198795438
    .
  9. ^ Garde, Murray. "kunmarung". Bininj Kunwok online dictionary. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
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