Ngarnka language
| Ngarnka | |
|---|---|
| Gudanji | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory |
| Ethnicity | Ngarndji |
| Extinct | by 1998[1] |
|
Mirndi
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nji |
| Glottolog |
guda1242[2] |
| AIATSIS[3] |
N121 |
Ngarnka (Ngarndji), also known as Gudandji, is an extinct Australian language which was spoken in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Australia, Australia, close to the township of Elliot. According to the Australian linguist Robert J. Pensalfini, the last fluent speaker of the language died between 1997 and 1998.[1]
During history, the Ngarnka language has often been mistaken for the Wambaya language, but the linguist Neil Chadwick proved during the 1970s that they are two distinct languages.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pensalfini, Robert J. (2004). "Eulogizing a language: the Ngarnka experience". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2004 (168): 141–156. doi:10.1515/ijsl.2004.029.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gudanji". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ngarnka at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies