Tagalaka language

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Takalak
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Tagalag
Extinct (date missing)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tgz
Glottolog taga1279
AIATSIS [1] Y125
ELP Tagalaka

Takalak (Tagalaka, Dagalag) is a poorly attested, extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland.

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The Tagalaka inhabited the area, estimated at 3,900 square miles (10,000 km2), in the middle of the Gilbert River, north nearly to the Einasleigh River, south to the Gregory Range, east to Georgetown and Forsayth and west to near Croydon. [2]

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References

  1. Y125 Takalak at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Tindale 1974, p. 185.

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