Nyulnyul language

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Nyulnyul
Spoken in:	Western Australia
Language extinction:	1999, with the death of Carmel Charles
Language family:	Nyulnyulan Western Nyulnyulic Nyulnyul
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`aus`
ISO 639-3:	`nyv`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Nyulnyul is an extinct Australian Aboriginal dialect, formerly spoken by the Nyulnyul people of Western Australia.

Mary Carmel Charles is documented as the last fluent speaker of the Nyulnyul language of Western Australia.^[1]

[edit] Classification

Nyulnyul is very closely related to and possibly mutually intelligible with Bardi, Jawi, Jabirrjabirr and Nimanburru, and possibly also Ngumbarl about which little is known. However, the speakers considered them to be distinct.

[edit] Notes

^ Charles, Mary; translated by W. B. McGregor (1993). Winin - Why the Emu Cannot Fly. Broome, WA: Magabala Books. ISBN 875641 07 6.

[edit] References

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McGregor, W. B. (1996). Nyulnyul. Munich and Newcastle: Lincom Europa.
McGregor, W. B. (1999). "The medio-active construction in Nyulnyulan languages". Studies in Language 23: 531–567.
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McGregor, W. B. (2000). "Reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Nyulnyulan languages", in Z. Frajzyngier and T.S. Curl: Reciprocals: Form and Function. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 85–122.
McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Language shift among the Nyulnyul of Dampier Land". Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 35: 115–159.
Nekes, H. (1938). "The pronoun in Nyol-Nyol (Nyul-Nyul) and related dialects", in A.P. Elkin: Studies in Australian Linguistics. Sydney: University of Sydney, 139–163.