Language name and locationː Wambaya, Australia  [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 万巴亚语, 澳大利亚北部

1. ɡarndawuɡa / ɡaɳdawuɡa / or / kaɳtawuka /

2. ɡujarra /ɡuɟara / or /kuɟara /

3. murrɡun /murɡun/ or  /murkun/

    ɡarnɡuj / ɡaɳɡuɟ/or / kaɳkuɟ/ 'many'

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Rachel Nordlinger, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. October 29, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Rachel Nordlinger, 2012 年 10 月 29 日.

Other comments: Wambaya has only three words for numbers 1 to 3. Please note, though, that those forms are stems only – they can’t occur as words on their own without gender suffixes attached. They are inflected with one of four gender suffixes, as described in the grammatical description.

Note that ‘rn’ is a retroflex alveolar nasal, j is a lamino-palatal stop, rr is an alveolar tap. There is no phonemic distinction between voiced and voiceless stops in Wambaya (as in many Australian languages).  Word initially /k/ is more likely than /g/, and /g/ is more common word medially....but it’s only an allophonic issue.