Gajirrawoong dialect

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Gajirrabeng
Region The Kimberley, Western Australia; Northern Territory, north coast from Wyndham to mouth of Victoria River and inland
Ethnicity Gadjerong
Extinct c. early 2010s [1] [2]
Jarrakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gdh
Glottolog gadj1243
AIATSIS [2] K37.1
ELP Gajirrabeng

Gajirrawoong, also written Gajirrabeng, Gadjerawang, Gadjerong, Gadyerong and Kajirrawung, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. It is at least endangered and possibly extinct; as of 2004 it was known by only three or four fluent speakers, [3] and in the 2016 Australian Census, there were no recorded speakers using it at home. [4] It is in the Jarrakan language family, [2] and is the language of the Gajirrawoong people.

The nearby Gurindji language is known to have borrowed from Gajirrawoong. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". Australian Bureau of Statistics . Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 K37.1 Gajirrabeng at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ McGregor, William (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia. London, New York: Taylor & Francis.
  4. ↑ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". Australian Bureau of Statistics . Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Language: Gajirrabeng". World Loanword Database. Max Planck Society. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
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