| Language name: | BARDI |
| UPSID number: | 8357 |
| Alternate name(s): | NYULNYUL |
| Classification: | Australian, Nyulnyulan |
| This language has | 24 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.407150776 (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. k m n n. N l l. r r.A j w i a O u i: a: u: t_ l_ n_ |
| Comment: | "The principal members of the stop phones are voiceless, although there are voiced allophones for all five" (Metcalfe 1971). Retroflex plosives and nasals do not occur word-initially; retroflex /r./ does occur initially but alveolar /r/ doesn't. Establishment of a length contrast in vowels is tentative. |
| Source(s): | Metcalfe, C.D. 1971. A tentative statement of the Bardi aboriginal language. Papers on the Languages of Australian Aboriginals (Australian Aboriginal Studies 38): 82-92. |