Also Known As:
Gunmarung, Mawung, Gun-Marung, Maw, Managari, Goulburn Islands, Gunmarang, Kunmarung, Manangari, Mau, Mauung, Maung
Dialects & Varieties
Agreement in Mawng: Productive and lexicalised uses of agreement in an Australian language
Singer, Ruth. Agreement in Mawng: Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Agreement in An Australian Language. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2006.
Vulnerable
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~300
Native Speakers Worldwide
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Almost all members of the community or ethnic group speak the language, and the number of speakers is stable or increasing.
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Domains of Use
Domain Of Use -1
Used in most domains, including official ones such as government, mass media, education, etc.
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Transmission
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All members of the community, including children, speak the language.
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Speakers
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Comments on speakers
"Mawng has always served as the dominant language at Martpalk"
Location and Context
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Other Languages Used By The Community
English, Bininj Gun-wok, Kunbarlang, Iwaidja, Maningrida
Number of Other Language Speakers:
All speak English, most speak another indigenous language.
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Comments on writing systems:
Practical roman-based alphabet devised by Hewett in 1970s
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