Gurdjar language

Not to be confused with Gujari language.
Gurdjar
Kurtjar
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers
1 (2007)[1]
Dialects
Kurtjar (Gunggara)
Rip (Ngarap, Areba)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
gdj  Gurdjar
aea  Areba
Glottolog ribg1235[2]
AIATSIS[3] G33 Kurtjar, Y107 Areba

Gurdjar (Kurtjar) is a Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. There are two dialects, Gurdjar proper (Gunggara), and Rip (Ngarap, Areba).[4] Kunggara is another name for one or the other.[3]

References

  1. Gurdjar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Areba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Rib–Gurdjar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 Kurtjar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  4. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
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