Miriwoong language

Miriwoong
Region Kununurra, Western Australia
Native speakers
50 (2005) to 210 (2006 census)[1]
Jarrakan
  • Miriwoong
Dialects
Miriwoong Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mep
Glottolog miri1266[2]
AIATSIS[1] K29

Miriwoong (Miriwung) is an Australian Indigenous language which today has about 20 speakers, most of whom live in or near Kununurra in Western Australia.[3]

Sign

The Miriwoong have a developed signed form of their language.

References

  1. 1 2 Miriwoong at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Miriwung". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Gunanurang: (Kununurra) big river" (PDF). Department of Environment and Conservation. East Perth, W.A. : Waters and Rivers Commission. Retrieved 2008-04-08.

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