Ethnicity Kuku Nyungkal people Writing system Latin | Native speakers 5 (date missing) Glottolog kuku1274 | |
Region Annan River, Queensland Language family Pama–Nyungan
Paman
Yalanjic
Kuku Yalanji
Kuku Nyungkal | ||
Kuku Nyungkal (also spelled Kuku Njunggal, Guugu Nyungkul, Gugu Njunggal) is an Australian Aboriginal language and the language of the Kuku Nyungkal people of Far North Queensland. It's a variety of Kuku Yalanji still being spoken (though by fewer people than speak Kuku Yalanji itself). Most of the speakers today live in the communities of Wujal Wujal and Mossman.
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The UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger includes Kuku Nyungkal language as part of a larger Kuku Yalanji languages listing, identifying and listing all the Kuku Yalanji languages as a whole as being "severely endangered"
Vowels
Kuku Nyungkal has three vowels as follows:
Consonants
Kuku Nyungkal has thirteen consonants as follows:
All are pronounced as they would be in English, with the rr used for a rolled r, as in the Scottish r.