Language name and location: Bunaba (Bunuba), Australia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 布纳巴语, 澳洲西部

 

1. /yuwarna/, [jɔwɐɽnɐ]

2. /thurranda/, [t̪ʊɾɐndɐ]

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Alan Rumsey, Department of Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. October 10, 2012.
提供资料的语言学家: Prof. Alan Rumsey, 2012 年 10 月 10 日.

 

Other comments: Bunuba, or Bunaba, is a non-Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken the Kimberley region, in the northern part of the state of Western Australia. As far as I have been able to determine there are no Bunuba words for numbers higher than two. When I asked for a word for ‘three’ I was given ngarlgurru, which really means ‘a few’.

honological Inventory of Bunaba

Consonant Inventoriesː

 

 Bilabial

 Dental 

 Alveolar

 Retroflex

 Palatal Velar

Stops

  b (b)

   th (d̪)

  d (d)    

  rd (ɖ)   

 j (ɟ)   

k (ɡ)

Nasals

  m (m)

   nh (n̪)

  n (n)

  rh (ɳ)

 ny(ɲ)

ng(ŋ)
Laterals           

  

   l (l)

   rl (ɭ)

 ry (ʎ) 

  

Rhotics

 

        

   rr (r, ɾ)

  r (ɹ,ɻ)

  rd (ɽ)

    

Glides

  w (w)  

   yh (ɹ̪)

 

 

 y (j)

w(w)

 

Vowel inventoriesː

 

Front

Mid

Back

Close

    i

 

    u

Open

 

     a, aː

 

 

 

 

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