Djugun dialect

Jukun
Jukun
Region	Western Australia
Ethnicity	Jukun
Extinct	by 1982; rememberers possible
Language family	Nyulnyulan Eastern Yawuru Jukun; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dyd
Glottolog	dyug1238
AIATSIS	K2

Last updated January 02, 2026

Jukun or Djugun is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia. There are no longer any fluent speakers of Jukun, but some people may remember it to some degree. It is an Eastern Nyulnyulan language, closely related to Yawuru.^[2]

Notes

1 2 K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
↑ Djugun dialect at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

References

Nekes, H.; Worms, E. A. (1953). Australian Languages. Fribourg: Anthropos Institut.
Stokes, B; McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages". In N. Evans (ed.). The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent's Most Linguistically Complex Region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 29–74.

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[AIATSIS-1] 1 2 K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[2] Djugun dialect at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

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