Nukunu language

Nukunu
Region	South Australia
Ethnicity	Nukunu
Extinct	ca. 2000
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Thura-Yura (unclassified) Nukunu
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	nugu1241
AIATSIS	L4
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Nukunu (or Nugunu; many other names: see below) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language spoken by Nukunu people on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

This language has been known by many names by neighboring tribes and Australianists, including:

Nukunu is a Pama–Nyungan language, closely related to neighboring languages in the Miru cluster like Narungga, Kaurna, and Ngadjuri.

Nukunu has three different vowels with contrastive long and short lengths (a, i, u, a:, i:, u:).

The Nukunu consonantal inventory is typical for a Pama–Nyungan language, with six places of articulation for stops and nasals. There are three rhotics in the language.

A phonemic voicing contrast exists in Nukunu, but it has only been observed in the retroflex stop series. An example demonstrating such a contrast intervocalically is kurdi (phlegm, IPA ['kuɖi]) and kurti (quandong, IPA ['kuʈi]).

In contrast with other Thura–Yura languages, Nukunu did not partake in either the initial th- lenition before vowels or the lenition of initial k- before vowels.

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