Blevins Juliette. Nhanda: An aboriginal language of Western Australia

University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. — 183 p.Nhanda is a language of Western Australia, once spoken along a coastal strip 20-100 kilometers wide from present-day Geraldton north to the Murchison River. Nhanda is one of the least studied Aboriginal languages of Western Australia and is currently on the verge of extinction. Nhanda is unique among languages in this area in displaying evidence of initial consonant loss, a voicing contrast in obstruents, a distinctive glottal stop, a tripartite system of bound pronominals, a verbal conjugation contrast between unaccusative and unergatives, and an incipient case-marking system where intransitive subjects, transitive subjects and direct objects all have distinct case markers. Presently, Nhanda is spoken by a handful of people at most.I joined a paper by Juliette Blevins : ‘Nhanta and its position within Pama-Nyungan’