Language family Eastern Daly
Matngele ISO 639-3 zml | Writing system Latin Glottolog madn1237 | |
Region Northern Territory, Australia Extinct by 2006 census
perhaps 1 reported 1973; perhaps 10 reported 1990 | ||
Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory.
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Classification
Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990).
Grammar
Matngele has only five simple verbs. These must be combined with coverbs in order to form complex verbs.
References
Matngele language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA