Gurindji Kriol
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Gurindji Kriol | ||
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Spoken in: | Kalkaringi and Dagaragu, Northern Territory, Australia | |
Total speakers: | ? | |
Language family: | Mixed language. | |
Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | — | |
ISO 639-3: | — | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Gurindji Kriol is the main language of the Gurindji people of Kalkaringi and Dagaragu in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a mixed language, derived from Kriol, an English-based creole, and Gurindji, the traditional Australian Aboriginal language of the Gurindji people, now spoken fluently only by older people.
[edit] References
- McConvell, Patrick; Meakins, Felicity (April 2005). "Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code-switching". Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 9–30. DOI:10.1080/07268600500110456.