Noongar (Nyungaa-wangka)
Noongar or Nyungar is an Australian language of the Nyungar group of
the Pama-Nyungan language family with only a few fluent speakers. It was
once spoken in the south-western part of Western Australia between the
area north of Perth and the south coast eastern of Albany. Most of Nyungar-speaking
peoble live in the eastern part of this region. There was no standard Nyungar
language, but a number of dialects. A creolized form of the eastern dialect
of Noongar, known as Neo-Nyungar, is spoken by about 8,000 people.
Noongar was first written in 1801 by Mathew Flinders, who made a number
of word lists. Since then a number of different spelling systems have been
devised.
Noongar pronunciation
Transcriptions starting with a hyphen indicate that the letters appear only
at the ends of words.
Information compiled by Wolfram Siegel.
Links
Information about the Noongar people, language and culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noongar
Noongar (Nyungar) language resources
http://www.omninet.net.au/~bhoward/language.html
Details of Noogar pronunciation
http://www.omninet.net.au/~bhoward/pronunciation.html