Yinjibarndi language

Yinjibarndi
Yinjibarndi
Burnugundi, Mandanjingu
Native to	Australia
Region	Roebourne region of Western Australia
Ethnicity	Yindjibarndi
Native speakers	377 (2016 census)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Ngayarda Yinjibarndi; ;
Dialects	Kurrama;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yij
Glottolog	yind1247
AIATSIS	W37
ELP	Yindjibarndi

Yinjibarndi is a Pama–Nyungan language spoken by the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara region in north-western Australia.

Yinjibarndi is mutually intelligible with Kurrama, but the two are considered distinct languages by their speakers.

Classification[]

Yindjibarndi is classified as a member of the Ngayarta branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages. Under Carl Georg von Brandenstein's 1967 classification, Yindjibarndi was classed as an Inland Ngayarda language, but the separation of the Ngayarda languages into Coastal and Inland groups is no longer considered valid.

Sounds[]

Yindjibarndi consonant phonemes^[3]
	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	p	k	c	t̪	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n	ɳ
Trill/Tap					ɾ~r
Lateral					l	ɭ
Approximant	w		j	ð̞		ɻ

Yindjibarndi vowel inventory^[3]

	Front	Back
High	i, iː	u, uː
Low	a, aː	oː

Grammar[]

Pronouns[]

Yindjibarndi, like Lardil, has pronouns that indicate whether the referents include two people separated by an odd number of generations or not.^{[citation needed]}

Influence on other languages[]

The verb 'yandy', meaning to separate (grain or pieces of mineral) by shaking in a special shallow dish, comes from Yindjibarndi.^[4]

References[]

^ ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
^ W37 Yinjibarndi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Wordick, F. J. F. (1982). The Yindjibarndi language. Pacific Linguistics Series C. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0-85883-265-8.
^ Oxford Dictionary of English, p 2,055.

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[1] ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

[AIATSIS-2] W37 Yinjibarndi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[Wordick1982-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Wordick, F. J. F. (1982). The Yindjibarndi language. Pacific Linguistics Series C. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0-85883-265-8.

[4] Oxford Dictionary of English, p 2,055.

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