Karranga language

Karranga
Karranga
Karangpurru
(unattested)
Region	Northern Territory, Australia
Ethnicity	Karrangpurru
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	unclassified, likely Pama–Nyungan Ngumbin? Mudburra? Karranga; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xrq (merged with dmw as Mudburra)
Glottolog	karr1239
AIATSIS	C33
	Karranga (purple), among the non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

Last updated June 12, 2025

Karranga is an extinct, unclassified Aboriginal Australian language spoken by the Karrangpurru people.

McConvell suspects Karrangpurru was a dialect of Mudburra because people said it was similar. However, it is undocumented and thus formally unclassifiable.^[1]

References

1 2 C33 Karranga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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[AIATSIS-1] 1 2 C33 Karranga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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