Ngarnka language

Ngarnka
Gudanji
Native to Australia
Region Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory
Ethnicity Ngarndji
Extinct by 1998[1]
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. 1 2 3 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.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gudanji". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Ngarnka at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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