Djargurd Wurrung language
| Kuurn Kopan Noot | |
|---|---|
| Dhauwurd Wurrung | |
| Gurnditjmara | |
| Region | Victoria |
| Ethnicity | Gurnditjmara people |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
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Pama–Nyungan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | warr1257 |
| AIATSIS |
S20 Dhauwurd Wurrung, S25 Keerray-Woorroong |
Kuurn Kopan Noot, or Gurnditjmara (Kirurndit, Gu:nditj-mara), is an extinct language of Victoria (Australia). It had a number of dialects (see box at right), including Kuurn Kopan Noot proper.
A likely phonemic inventory for the Warrnambool language is shown below.
Rhotic consonants were not distinguished in older sources. It is unclear to determine whether the retroflex consonant was a glide or a flap. Both were written as r.
Although most Australian indigenous languages use three vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/, the amount of vowels are not clearly distinguished within the other sources for the Warrnambool language. There is some fluctuation between /i/ and /e/, and /u/ and /o/. Where there was a back vowel occurring before a syllable-final palatal, /o/ was used instead of /u/, to give a better idea of the more likely pronunciation (i.e. puroyn "night").
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