Ngadjunmaya language

Ngadjunmaya
Ngadjunmaya
Ngadjumaya
Native to	Australia
Region	Goldfields-Esperance; Eyre’s Sand Patch, Goddard Creek to Port Malcolm, to Fraser Range, to Naretha and Point Culver, at Mount Andres, Russell Range, Balladonia, and Norseman
Ethnicity	Ngadjunmaia, ?Murunitja
Native speakers	20 (2021)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Mirning Ngadjunmaya; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nju
Glottolog	ngad1258
AIATSIS	A3

Ngadjunmaya, correctly known as Ngadjumaya^{[citation needed]}, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region.

Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjumaya or of Mirning.

Phonology

Three vowels with length are present:

	Front	Back
High	i iː	u uː
Low	a aː

/i/ can also be heard as [e] before a velar /k/, and as [ɛ ~ æ] before palatal sounds /ʎ, j/.
/a/ can also be heard as [ɔ] when following sounds /w, j/, and as [o] when following /k/.
/u/ can also be heard as fronted [ʏ] when preceding /j/.

1 2 A3 Ngadjunmaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
↑ von Brandenstein, C. G. (1980). Ngadjumaja: An Aboriginal Language of South-East Western Australia. Innsbruck: AMOE.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)