Nakkara (Na-kara) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Nagara people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It is also spelled Nakara or Nagara and also called Kokori.
Phonology
Consonants +Consonant chartBilabialApicalLaminalDorsalAlveolarRetroflexPalatalVelarStopbdɖɟgNasalmnɳ ɲŋLaterallɭRhoticr/ɾɽSemivowelwj
Stops have both voiced and voiceless allophones, depending on their position in the word. Furthermore, a stop length variation is present, which is only contrastive in morpheme-medial positions. This can be interpreted as either gemination, or as evidence for the existence of two separate stop series, with a suprasegmental hypothesis being mostly ruled out.
The tapped and trilled allophones of /r/ are in free variation.
Vowels +Vowel chartFrontCentralBackCloseiuMideoOpena
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