布拉拉语

布拉拉语(Burarra)是阿纳姆地一种由布拉拉族使用的澳大利亚原住民语言,有几种方言。

布拉拉语
区域北领地
族群布拉拉族、Gadjalivia
母语使用人数
995 (2016年人口普查)[1]
語系
分支/方言
Gun-narta (Gidjingaliya、Anbarra)
Gun-nartpa (Gudjarlabiya)
Gun-narda (Martay)
語言代碼
ISO 639-3bvr
Glottologbura1267[2]
AIATSIS[3]N82
ELPBurarra

詹古语人群中有个布拉拉部落,时常会和布拉拉语混淆。[4]

分类

布拉拉语不是帕马-恩永甘语系语言。它与古尔-戈尼语等几种语言构成布拉拉语族。[5][6][7]

分布

布拉拉族来自阿纳姆地中部和中北部的Blyth和Cadell河流域,但目前更多人住在更西边利物浦河河口的的曼宁立达(Maningrida)镇。[5][8]

方言

Glasgow (1994)分出3种方言:Gun-nartpa (来自Cadell河流域的Mu-golarra/Mukarli族群)、Gun-narta (Blythe河河口西侧An-barra)和Gun-narda (Blythe河东岸Martay)。这些名称都来自方言的指示代词“那”。她还注释道后两个方言(Gun-narta和Gun-narda) 常被划到一起,并被其东部邻接族群称为“布拉拉”,自称则是“Gu-jingarliya”(“语言/用舌头”)。

Green (1987)分出2种方言:Gun-nartpa和布拉拉话(Gu-jingarliya),但注释道布拉拉话使用者中存在显著的方言差异。

音系

辅音

布拉拉语辅音音素[9]:37–39
唇音 齿龈音 卷舌音 硬颚音 软腭音
强塞音 p t ʈ c k
弱塞音 b d ɖ ɟ g
鼻音 m n ɳ ɲ ŋ
边音 l ɭ
R音 r ɽ/ɹ
滑音 w j

多数情况下塞音的强弱分别对应清浊。[10]这种情况下,塞音通过口内压峰值和持阻时间区分。强辅音的持阻一般更长,口内压也更高,弱辅音则有擦音或近音的自由变体。[9]

元音

布拉拉语有5个元音。

布拉拉语元音[9]
i u
半开 ɛ (e) o
ɐ (a)

元音可以实现为:

/i/:半闭前元音[e]或[ɪ]

/a/:开央元音或schwa

/ɛ/:[ɛ]或[e]

/o/:[o]或[ɔ]

/u/:schwa,半开后圆唇元音[ö]的低化,或[ʊ][9]

语法

布拉拉语是一种前缀综合语。动词可以通过前缀实现主语和宾语之间的互指,有时和语态的屈折。有几个动词可以表达体、复合动作和使役。[5]

名词有变格,有4个类(an-、jin-、mun-和gun-)。[5][8]

阅读更多

Capell, A. 1942. Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia. Oceania, 12 (4), 364-392.

Elwell, Vanessa. 1977. Multilingualism and lingua francas among Australian Aborigines: A case study of Maningrida. Honours Thesis, Australian National University.

Elwell, Vanessa. 1982. Some social factors affecting multilingualism among Aboriginal Australians: a case study of Maningrida. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 36: 83-103.

Glasgow, Kathleen. 1981. Burarra phonemes. In Work papers of SIL-AAB, series A (Vol. 5). Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Glasgow, Kathleen. 1994. Burarra–Gun-nartpa dictionary with English finder list. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Green, Rebecca. 1987. A sketch grammar of Burarra. Honours Thesis, Australian National University Canberra.

Green, R. 2003. Proto Maningrida within Proto Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes. In N. Evans (Ed.), The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region (pp. 369–421). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Handelsmann, Robert. 1996. Needs Survey of Community Languages: Central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (Maningrida and Outstations). Report to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra.

Trefry, D. (1983). Discerning the back vowels /u/ and /o/ in Burarra, a language of the Australian Northern Territory. Working papers of the Speech and Language Research Centre, 3 (6), pp. 19–51.

参考

  1. ^ Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+). stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. [2017-10-29]. (原始内容存档于2018-12-26) (澳大利亚英语). 
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (编). Burarra. Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2016. 
  3. ^ N82 布拉拉语 at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies英语Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ^ N135 Burarra (Djangu) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies英语Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  5. ^ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Green, Rebecca. A sketch grammar of Burarra. Canberra: Honours thesis, Australian National University. 1987. 
  6. ^ Elwell, Vanessa. Multilingualism and lingua francas among Australian Aborigines: A case study of Maningrida. Canberra: Honours Thesis, Australian National University. 1977. 
  7. ^ O'Grady, G.N.; Voegelin, C.F. Languages of the world: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Six. Anthropological Linguistics. 1967. 
  8. ^ 8.0 8.1 Glasgow, Kathleen. Burarra–Gun-nartpa dictionary with English finder list. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1994. 
  9. ^ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Graetzer, Naomi. An Acoustic Study of Coarticulation: Consonant-Vowel and Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Four Australian Languages. MA Thesis. 2005,. University of Melbourne. 
  10. ^ Fortis and lenis. notendur.hi.is. [2018-12-22]. (原始内容存档于2021-06-07). 

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