Kok-Nar_language

Kok-Nar language

Kok-Nar language

Extinct Australian language

Kok Narr (Kok-Nar) is an extinct Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.

Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

Country

Ancestral Koknar(Kwantari) territory is estimated to cover 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) and extended from Galbraith Station and the northern bank of the lower Staaten River inland to Old Koolatah, north to Inkerman and the middle of the Nassau River.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Peripheral, Laminal ...
  • /ɻ/ may also be heard as a lateral [ɭ] in word-initial positions.

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
  • [ɛ] may be heard as an allophone of /i/ when after sounds /ɾ, r, j/.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    G29 Kok-Nar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. [2]
    Tindale 1974.
  3. [3]
    Breen, Gavan J. (1976). An Introduction to Gog-Nar. In Peter Sutton (ed.), Languages of Cape York: Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. pp. 243–259.

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