Mangarla language

Mangarla, also spelt Mangala, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It is spoken by the Mangarla people of the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert, inland from the coast.

Mangarla
Mangala
Native to	Australia
Region	Western Australia
Ethnicity	Mangala people
Native speakers	68 (2016 census)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Marrngu Mangarla
Dialects	Juwarliny
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mem
Glottolog	mang1383
AIATSIS[2]	A65
ELP	Mangala
Mangarla is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Phoneme Inventory

Mangala's phoneme inventory is typical of Australian languages, and is identical to the inventories of the other Marrngu languages. There are 17 consonant phonemes.

	Peripheral		Apical		Laminal
	Bilabial	Velar	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal
Obstruents	p	k	t	ʈ	ɟ
Nasals	m	ŋ	n	ɳ	ɲ
Laterals			l	ɭ	ʎ
Rhotics			ɾ	ɻ
Approximants	w				j

/ɾ/ may also occasionally be heard as a trill [r].

Also typical of Australian languages, there are only three vowel phonemes.

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

/i, u, a/ in unstressed syllables may be heard as [ɪ, ʊ, ə].