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Final unstressed vowel devoicing. In Kalaw Lagaw Ya, such final vowels in correct language are devoiced, and deleted in colloquial language, except in a small class of words which include bera 'rib', where there is a short vowel in the stem and in which the final vowel is permanently deleted, with compensatory lengthening of the final consonant ...
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Vowel length is only overtly marked in two of the orthographies, and sporadically so in the others. In long diphthongs the first vowel is pronounced long. Vowel length in diphthongs is only overtly marked in one of the orthographies, and sporadically so in the others. Download an alphabet chart for Kala Lagaw Ya(Excel) Information compiled by Rod M...
Kulay daparaginga, nubi arkathagina, mura zaginga, kasa Awgadh meparuy. Awgadhan kulay dapar aymoedhin wagel nabi arkath, nabi arkath kulay kawaginga, a boeradharaginga, kasa malu. Senabi malu koey gubalnga na koey inuralnga. Wa Awgadhaw maygi mari nanga mulaydhin gimia, nuydh wayadhin nungu woenab nanga, Awgadh kedha mulaydhin, "Buya nagi". Kalanu...
Information about the Kala Lagaw Ya language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Lagaw_Ya_language http://www.flw.com/languages/kala.htm
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Kala Lagaw Ya (also written as Kalaw Lagaw Ya) is the traditional language owned by the Western and Central islands of the Torres Strait. It is linguistically connected to the Aboriginal languages of the Australian mainland and has four distinct regional dialects derived from this language: Mabuyag. Kalaw Kawaw Ya.
Kalaw Lagaw Ya's full classification is as follows: Paman-Nyungan (Proto-Pama-Nyungan) > Kalaw Lagaw Ya Phonology and Phonotactics. KKY has six vowels, which do not seem to vary based on length (the other main dialect of KLY does contrast vowels based on length, though it seems it lost the original Proto-PN vowel length and reinvented it).
In Kalaw Lagaw Ya, such final vowels in correct language are devoiced, and deleted in colloquial language, except in a small class of words which include bera 'rib', where there is a short vowel in the stem and in which the final vowel is permanently deleted, with compensatory lengthening of the final consonant (thus berr).
Kalaw Kawaw Ya (KKY) is a dialect of the Western Torres Strait language, which is considered to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, the largest of the Australian subgroupings (Dixon 1980). Kala Lagaw Ya, Kala Lagaw Langgus, Yagar Yagar and Mabuiag are other names which have been applied to the Western Torres Strait language or another of its ...
Questions vary between using English/Meriam Mìr-like word order, i.e. question word initially, or Kala Lagaw Ya/Malay-like word order, i.e. question word order is the same as that of statements. As stated above, the question word has its full form when used clause finally, and a reduced form otherwise.
