Pakanha language
Appearance
Pakanha | |
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Ayabakan | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Ayabakan |
Extinct | 1990s[1] No known L1 speakers[2][1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pkn |
Glottolog | paka1251 |
AIATSIS[2] | Y64 Pakanh, Y181 Western Ayapathu |
ELP | Pakanh |
Coordinates: 14°30′S 142°25′E / 14.500°S 142.417°E | |
Pakanha (Bakanha), or Ayabakan, is a nearly
Pakanha people in the central part of the Cape York Peninsula.[3]
Phonology
Vowels
Pakanha has 5 vowel qualities:[4]
Short | Long | |||||
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Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
Close | i ⟨i⟩ | u ~ ʊ ⟨u⟩ | iː ⟨ii⟩ | uː ⟨uu⟩ | ||
Mid | e ~ e̞ ⟨e⟩ | o ~ ɔ ⟨o⟩ | ɛː ⟨ee⟩ | oː ⟨oo⟩ | ||
Open | a ~ ə ⟨a⟩ | aː ⟨aa⟩ |
Consonants
Pakanha has 15
consonants:[4]
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | Glottal | ||||
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Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
Plosive | p ⟨p⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | c ⟨ch⟩ | t̪ ⟨th⟩
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t ⟨t⟩
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ʔ ⟨'⟩ | |
Nasal
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m ⟨m⟩ | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ɲ ⟨ny⟩ | n̪ ⟨nh⟩
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n ⟨n⟩
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Trill | r ⟨rr⟩
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Approximant | w ⟨w⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | l ⟨l⟩
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ɻ ⟨r⟩ |
Vocabulary/Topical Index
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The following is a sample of words from a comparative wordlist/topical index produced by Philip Hamilton.Uw Oykangand languages:
(P) = Pakanha, (Olk) = Uw Olkola, (Oyk) = Uw Oykangand.
The Body:
- Body
- nhangka (P)
- idnhan (Olk, Oyk)
- elpan (Olk)
- Head
- wele (P)
- eka (Olk)
- e.g. (Oyk)
- Fontanel
- wele ngangka (P)
- ek ulpar (Olk)
- e.g. ulbar (Oyk)
- Skull
- yenkan (P)
- ek obher (Olk)
- e.g. opher (Oyk)
In popular culture
The Pakanha word for the
Survivor in 2001.[6]
References
- ^ a b Pakanha at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b Y64 Pakanh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ Wurm and Hattori 1981
- ^ a b Hamilton, Philip (1998), Uw Oykangand and Uw Olkola Multimedia Dictionary, retrieved 20 January 2011 {{grapheme|
- ^ Hamilton, Philip (1998), Uw Oykangand and Uw Olkola Multimedia Dictionary, archived from the original on 23 March 2012, retrieved 22 February 2011
- ^ "Kangaroo". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17.