Darkinjung language
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| Darkinjung | ||
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| Spoken in: | New South Wales, Australia | |
| Language extinction: | ? | |
| Language family: | Pama-Nyungan Yuin-Kuric Darkinjung |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Darkinjung (many other spellings; see below) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Darkinjung people. It was spoken adjacent to Dharuk, Wiradhuri and Awabakal.
[edit] Name
The name of the language has various spellings:
- Darkinjang (Tindale 1974)
- Darkinjung
- Darkiñung (Mathews 1903)
- Darginjang
- Darginyung
- Darkinung
- Darkinoong
- Darknung
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[edit] Sources
- R. H. Mathews (Jul.–Dec. 1903). "Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 33: 259–283.
