Kungkari (also Gunggari, Koonkerri, Kuungkari) is an extinct and unclassified Australian Aboriginal language. The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.
Classification Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.
Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language.
Wafer and Lissarrague (2008) report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990) is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.
Phonology
Consonants PeripheralLaminalApicalLabialVelarDentalPalatalAlveolarRetroflexPlosivepkt̪ctʈNasalmŋn̪ɲnɳRhoticrLateral(l̪)ʎlɭApproximantwjɻ
The dental lateral [l̪] mainly occurs as an allophone of /l/ within the consonant cluster /lt̪/. /t/ may be realized as a voiced stop [d] when after /n/, or as a voiced tap [ɾ] in intervocalic positions.
Vowels FrontCentralBackHighi iːu (uː)Lowa aː
The long [uː] only rarely occurs.
References
External links
Kuungkari, Bidjara, Inangai & Wangkangurru (Central West Region) community language journey digital story, at State Library of Queensland