Garadjari language

Garadjari
Region	Western Australia
Native speakers	10? (2005) to 28 (2006 census)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Marrngu Garadjari
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gbd
Glottolog	kara1476[2]
AIATSIS[1]	A64

Garadjari (many other spellings; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Name

The name has many spelling variants, including:

• Garadjari (used by A Grammar of Garadjari)
• Garadjiri
• Garadyari
• Garadyaria
• Gard'are
• Karadjeri (used by Ethnologue)
• Karajarri (used by the Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages and is the spelling selected by the Karajarri people for their native title claims^[3][4])
• Karatjarri (used by Australian Languages)
• Karatyarri
• Karrajarra
• Karrajarri

Kurajarra / Guradjara is sometimes confused with Garadjari, but it appears to have been a separate language.^[1]

References

• Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780, ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
• Sands, Anna Kristina (1989). A Grammar of Garadjari, Western Australia.
• Thieberger, Nicholas (1993). Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberley Region. Pacific Linguistics.

Notes

1. Garadjari 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). "Karadjeri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. http://www.nntt.gov.au/Applications-And-Determinations/Search-Determinations/Pages/Karajarri_People_Area_A_WC002.aspx
4. http://www.nntt.gov.au/Applications-And-Determinations/Search-Determinations/Pages/Karajarri_People_Area_B_WC002.aspx