Dhungaloo language

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Dhungaloo
(unconfirmed)
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Native speakers
 1?  (2012)[1]
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Maric)
    • Dhungaloo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dhx
AIATSIS[2] none

Dhungaloo (Dungaloo) is a possibly extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Bowern[3] suggests that it may have been a Maric language. However, AIATSIS has no listing for the name.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Dhungaloo reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ↑ Dhungaloo at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  4. ↑


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