Wageman Language: Difference between revisions

From Testwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(New page: <table valign=top> <tr> <td valign=top align=left width="50%"> <table valign=top> <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Wagiman,Wogeman <b>Description:</b> Wagiman (also spe...)
 
(Redirecting to Wageman Language (waq))
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 
#REDIRECT [[Wageman Language (waq)]]
<table valign=top>
  <tr>
    <td valign=top align=left width="50%">
    <table valign=top>
        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Wagiman,Wogeman
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Wagiman (also spelled Wageman, Wakiman, Wogeman) is a near-extinct indigenous Australian language spoken by fewer than 10 people in and around Pine Creek, in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory.
The Wagiman language is notable within linguistics for its complex system of verbal morphology, which remains under-investigated, its possession of a cross-linguistically rare part of speech called a coverb, its complex predicates and for its ability to productively verbalise coverbs.
Wagiman is expected to become extinct within the first half of the century, as the youngest generation of Wagiman people speak no Wagiman at all, and understand very little.
Wagiman is a member of the Gunwinyguan family of languages, a family that stretches from Arnhem Land, throughout Kakadu National Park and South to Katherine and beyond. Within this family, Wagiman is most closely related to three languages, Wardaman, Yangman and Dagoman, though there is considerable debate about the status of Wagiman within the Gunwinyguan family. Of these three other languages, only Wardaman is still spoken.
Wagiman is the ancestral language of the Wagiman people, an ethnic group of Australian Aborigines whose<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=9303642 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Wageman Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="3" width=400 height=300 lat="-32.345623" lon="141.434598" type="map">
-32.345623, 141.434598, Australia</googlemap>
</td></tr>
        <tr><td></td></tr>
    </table>
    </td>
    <td valign=top align=right>
    <table valign=top>
      <tr><td><table>
 
<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/australia Australia]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania]
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>waq</td></tr>
 
</table>
</td></tr>
      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Australian Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Gunwingguan Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Yangmanic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Wagiman Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Wageman Language]]</b>
 
</td></tr>
    </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
 
__NOTOC__

Latest revision as of 20:57, 13 August 2009

Redirect to:

Retrieved from "https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Wageman_Language&oldid=48766"