Gurr-Goni language

Guragone
Gungurugoni
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Gungurugoni
Native speakers	40 (2021 census) [1]
Language family	Macro-Gunwinyguan Maningrida Guragone
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gge
Glottolog	gura1252
AIATSIS [2]	N75
ELP	Gurr-goni

Gurr-goni, also spelled Guragone, Gorogone, Gun-Guragone, Gunagoragone, Gungorogone, Gurrogone, Gutjertabia, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Arnhem Land. There were about 60 speakers in 2011, all trilingual in Burarra or Kuninjku. ^[3]

Phonology

Vowels ^[4]

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	ɛ	o
Open	a

References

1. "SBS Australian Census Explorer" . Retrieved 12 October 2023.
2. N75 Guragone at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. Gurr-Goni language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
4. "Collections | AIATSIS corporate website". aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved 22 February 2025.

Further reading

• Capell, A. 1942. Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia. Oceania, 12 (4), 364-392.
• Elwell, Vanessa. 1977. Multilingualism and lingua francas among Australian Aborigines: A case study of Maningrida. Honours Thesis, Australian National University.
• Elwell, Vanessa. 1982. Some social factors affecting multilingualism among Aboriginal Australians: a case study of Maningrida. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 36: 83-103.
• Green, Rebecca. 1995. A Grammar of Gurr-goni. PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Green, Rebecca. 2003. Gurr-goni, a minority language in a multilingual community: Surviving into the 21st century. In Blythe, Joe and Brown, R. McKenna (eds.),Maintaining the links: language, identity and the land. Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, Broome, 22–24 September 2003. Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
• Green, Rebecca. 2003. Proto Maningrida within Proto Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes. In N. Evans (Ed.), The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region (pp. 369–421). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• Handelsmann, Robert. 1996. Needs Survey of Community Languages: Central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (Maningrida and Outstations). Report to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra.