Kungarakany language
Kungarakany | |
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Gungaragany | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Northern Territory. |
Extinct | 1989, with the death of Madeline England |
Arnhem
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Dialects |
Gungarakanj
? Mukngirru
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ggk |
Glottolog |
kung1259 [1] |
AIATSIS[2] |
N14 |
Kungarakany (at left of colored area) |
Kungarakany (Gunerakan, Gungaragan, Gungarakanj, Kangarraga, Kungarakan) is an extinct Australian language spoken in the Northern Territory. Mukngirru was likely a dialect. It became extinct after the last speaker, Madeline England, died in 1989.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kungarakany". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Kungarakany at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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