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)
| Jukun | |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Jukun |
| Extinct | by 1982 [1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dyd |
| Glottolog | dyug1238 |
| AIATSIS [1] | K2 |
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]
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