Darkinjung language
| Darkinjung | |
|---|---|
| Hawkesbury–MacDonald River | |
| Region | New South Wales, Australia |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
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Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
Darrkinyung
Hawkesbury River–Broken Bay?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xda |
| Glottolog |
hawk1239[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] |
S65 |
Darkinjung (Darrkinyung; 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)
- Darrkinyung
- 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 publication of the work Darkinyung grammar and dictionary: revitalising a language from historical sources.[3]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hawkesbury". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Darkinjung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Jones, Caroline (2008). Darkinyung grammar and dictionary: revitalising a language from historical sources. Nambucca Heads, Australia: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative. ISBN 978-0-9775351-9-4.
- 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.
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