Darkinjung language

Darkinjung
Spoken in	New South Wales, Australia
Extinct	?
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Yuin–Kuric Yora Darkinjung
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	`0hk`

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.

Name

The name of the language has various spellings:

Darkinjang (Tindale 1974)
Darkinjung
Darkiñung (Mathews 1903)
Darginjang
Darginyung
Darkinung
Darkinoong
Darknung

Revitalisation effort

Since 2003 there has been a movement from the Darkinyung language group to revitalise the language. They started working with the original field reports of Robert H. Mathews and W. J. Enright. Where there were gaps in the sparsely populated wordlists, words were taken from lexically similar nearby languages. This led to the publishing of the work: Darkinyung grammar and dictionary: revitalising a language from historical sources.^[1]

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 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 33: 259–283. doi:10.2307/2842812. JSTOR 2842812.

^ Jones, Caroline (2008). Darkinyung grammar and dictionary: revitalising a language from historical sources. Nambucca Heads, Australia: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative. ISBN 9780977535194.