Английская Википедия:Gubbi Gubbi language
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Gubbi Gubbi , also (incorrectly) spelt Kabi-Kabi/, is a language of Queensland in Australia, formerly spoken by the Gubbi Gubbi people of South-east Queensland. The main dialect, Gubbi Gubbi, is extinct, but there are still 24 people with knowledge of the Butchulla dialect (also spelt Batjala, Batyala, Badjala, and variants), a language spoken by the Butchulla people of K'gari.
Words
According to Norman Tindale (1974), the word Kabi (['kabi]), means "no".[1]
"Wunya ngulum" means "Welcome, everyone" in Kabi Kabi/Gabi-Gabi.[2]
Language status
The main dialect is extinct, but there were still 24 people with knowledge of the Batjala dialect (a language spoken by the Butchulla people of K'gari formerly known as Fraser Island) as of the 2016 Australian census.[3]
Phonology
The following is in the Badjala/Butchulla dialect:
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex/ Palatal |
Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | plain | b | d̪ | d | (ɟ) | ɡ |
| tense | pː | d̪ː | kː | |||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | |
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | r | ɻ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- /n̪/ is always heard as palatal [ɲ] when preceding /i/, and in word-final position.
- /d̪/ can be heard in free variation with palatal [ɟ].
- /b d̪ ɡ/ can have lenited allophones [β ð ɣ] in intervocalic positions.
- /ɻ/ has a lateral allophone of [ɭ] when preceding /b/.
- /ɡ/ is often slightly palatalised as [ɡʲ] before /i/.
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː |
| Mid | ɛ ɛː | |
| Low | a aː | |
- Шаблон:IPA can sometimes be heard as Шаблон:IPA before Шаблон:IPA.
- Шаблон:IPA can be heard as Шаблон:IPA when preceding an intervocalic Шаблон:IPA.[4]
References
External links
- Bibliography of Gabi Gabi people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Heritage of Kabi Kabi people - Sunshine Coast Tourism Information Centre
- Joyce Bonner digital story, State Library of Queensland. Digital story discussing the Badtjala dialect
- Eve Fesl digital story, State Library of Queensland. Digital story discussing the Gubbi Gubbi language
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- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокcensusне указан текст - ↑ Bell, Jeanie P. (2003). A sketch grammar of the Badjala language of Gari (Fraser Island). The University of Melbourne.
