Alawa language

Alawa
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory; Arnhem Land, Roper River.
Ethnicity	Alawa
Native speakers	12 (2006 census)
Language family	Arnhem? Marran? Alawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	alaw1244
AIATSIS	N92
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Alawa (Galawa) is a moribund Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Alawa people of the Northern Territory. In 1991, it had 18 remaining speakers and 4 semi-speakers.

Alawa has a typical consonant inventory for an Indigenous Australian language, with five contrastive places of articulation, multiple lateral consonants, and no voicing contrast among the stops.

Note: there are no standardised IPA symbols for alveopalatal stops.

The vowel system of Alawa is made up of four vowel phonemes: the high front vowel /i/, the high back vowel /u/, the mid front vowel /e/, and the low central vowel /a/.

There are no rounding contrasts or length contrasts in this language.

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