Djugun dialect
Jukun | |
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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.
Notes[]
- ^ a b K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
References[]
- Nekes, H.; Worms, E. A. (1953). Australian Languages. Fribourg: Anthropos Institut.
- Stokes, B; McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages". In N. Evans (ed.). The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent’s Most Linguistically Complex Region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 29–74.
Categories:
- Nyulnyulan languages
- Extinct languages of Western Australia
- Languages extinct in the 1980s
- Indigenous Australian language stubs