| Language name: | GARAWA |
| UPSID number: | 8345 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Australian, Garawan |
| This language has | 22 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.373714977 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t t_ t. c k m n n_ n. nj N r l l_ l. r.A j w I a U |
| Comment: | Garawa is spoken in the northeast of Northern Territory and an adjoining area of Queensland. The segments labelled palatal stop and nasal in UPSID are described as "lamino-velar" by Furby (1974). They have lengthened vowels with an [-i] offglide preceding them and do not occur word-initially. A considerable number of medial consonant clusters occur. Vowels have considerable allophonic variation. Stress falls on the first syllable of the (phonological) word. |
| Source(s): | Furby, C.E. 1974. Garawa Phonology. Pacific Linguistics, Series A, No. 37:1-11. Australian National University, Canberra. |