Yinhawangka language

Not to be confused with Ngarla language.

Yinhawangka (Inawangga) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. Dench (1995) believed there was insufficient data to enable it to be confidently classified, but Bowern & Koch (2004) include it among the Ngayarda languages without proviso.^[3]

Yinhawangka
Ngarla
Native to	Western Australia
Region	Pilbara
Ethnicity	Inawongga, Ninanu, Ngarlawangga (Ngarla)
Extinct	(date missing) 12 self-reported (2021 census)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Ngayarda Yinhawangka
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ywg
Glottolog	yinh1234
AIATSIS[2]	A48
ELP	Yinhawangka

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	p	k	ɟ	t̪	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n	ɳ
Lateral			ʎ	l̪	l	ɭ
Rhotic					ɾ
Approximant	w		j			ɻ

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

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

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See also

• Ngarla language