NYUNGAR (NYUNGA) 
(Southwest Australia; Australian, Nyungar)		 For more information about metathesis in this language, click on the following links:
Summary:
a. The order of CV in some forms in the Northern dialect is the reverse of that in the Southern dialect.
Examples
Conditions
Motivation
Additional info
Comments
References
Examples:
(See Comments for key to special characters used.)
a. Comparing Northern and Southern dialect, CV metathesis is attested.
 
Northern Southern
janka  janak  'devil'
nurrku nurruk  'egg'
Conditions:
No information currently available.
Motivation:
a. Dench (1990): Nyungar words which look like having undergone a metathesis process are the result of two phonological processes, the general loss of final vowels and an epenthetic insertion resyllabifying a non-permissable syllable coda.
Additional information:
No information currently available.
Comments:
Last updated: 7/24/2001
References:
  • Dench, Alan. 1990. An Autosegmental Account of Nyungar Metathesis. ms. UWA.
  • Hume, Elizabeth. 1995. Beyond Linear Order: Prosodic Constraints and C/V Metathesis. Proceedings of FLSM6. Indiana Linguistics Club.
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