Extinct Iwaidjan language of Australia
| Ilgar |
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| Garig |
| Native to | Australia |
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| Region | Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory |
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| Ethnicity | Ilgar, Gaari |
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| Extinct | 2003 |
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Language family | |
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| Dialects | |
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| Language codes |
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| ISO 639-3 | ilg |
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| Glottolog | gari1253 |
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| AIATSIS[1] | N184 Ilgar, N188 Garig |
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| ELP | Ilgar |
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Ilgar, also known as Garig-Ilgar after its two dialects, is an extinct Iwaidjan language spoken in the mainland of Cobourg Peninsula, around Port Essington, Northern Territory.
Phonology
Consonant inventory
[2]
Unlike many Australian languages, Ilgar does not have lamino-alveolars.
Vowels
Evans (1998) briefly discusses vowels in his paper noting that Iwaidjan languages including Ilgar have a three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system typical of most Australian languages.
References
- ^ N184 Ilgar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ Evans, Nicholas (1998). "Iwaidja mutation and its origins". In Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song. Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 115–149.
Further reading
- Evans, N. (2007). Pseudo-argument affixes in Iwaidja and Ilgar: a case of deponent subject and object agreement. In M. Baerman, G. G. Corbett, D. Brown, & A. Hippisley (Eds.), Deponency and morphological mismatches (pp. 271–296). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Evans,N. (1994). Ilgar Field Notes, Recorded from Charlie Wardaga.
