| 词条 | Wambaya language |
| 释义 |
|name = Wambaya |altname = McArthur River |states = Australia |region = Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory |ethnicity = Wambaya, Gudanji, Binbinga |speakers = 61 |date = 2016 census |ref = [1] |familycolor = Australian |fam1 = Mirndi |fam2 = Ngurlun |dia1=Wambaya |dia2=Gudanji |dia3=Binbinka |lc1 = wmb |ld1 = Wambaya |lc2 = nji |ld2 = Gudanji |glotto=wamb1258 |glottorefname=Wambayan |aiatsis = C19 |aiatsisname =Wambaya |aiatsis2 = C26 |aiatsisname2=Gurdanji |aiatsis3 = N138 |aiatsisname3=Binbinga }}Wambaya is a Non-Pama-Nyungan West Barkly Australian language of the Mirndi language group[2] that is spoken in the Barkly Tableland of the Northern Territory, Australia.[3] Wambaya and the other members of the West Barkly languages are somewhat unusual in that they are suffixing languages, unlike most Non-Pama-Nyungan languages which are prefixing.[2] The language was reported to have 12 speakers in 1981, and some reports indicate that the language went extinct as a first language.[4] However, in the 2011 Australian census 56 people stated that they speak Wambaya at home.[5] That number increased to 61 in the 2016 Census.[6] Rachel Nordlinger notes that the speech of the Wambaya, Gudanji and Binbinka people "are clearly dialects" of a single language, which she calls "McArthur", while Ngarnga is closely related but is "probably best considered a language of its own".[7]References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://stat.data.abs.gov.au/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ABS_C16_T09_SA|title=Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)|publisher=ABS|website=stat.data.abs.gov.au|language=en-au|access-date=2017-10-30}} 2. ^1 Nordlinger, Rachel. (1998), A Grammar Of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia), p. 1. 3. ^Ethnologue 4. ^{{Citation |last = Bender |first = Emily M. |authorlink = Emily M. Bender |year = 2008 |title = Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya |page = 2}} 5. ^http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/SSC70177?opendocument&navpos=220 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/IQS702021056#languageLink|title=2016 Census: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples QuickStats - Tennant Creek|website=www.censusdata.abs.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2018-05-09}} 7. ^{{Cite book| title = A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia) | last = Nordlinger | first = Rachel | year = 1998 | publisher = Pacific Linguistics | url = https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/129556/289662_A%20Grammar%20of%20Wambaya-1.pdf?sequence=2 | format = PDF | ref = harv | page = 2–3}} External links
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