Darkinjung language
Appearance
Darkinjung | |
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Region | New South Wales, Australia |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama-Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | aus |
ISO 639-3 | – |
ELP | Darkinyung |
Darkinjung (many other spellings; see below) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Darkinjung people. It was spoken adjacent to Dharuk, Wiradhuri and Awabakal.
Name
The name of the language has various spellings:
- Darkinjang (Tindale 1974)
- Darkinjung
- Darkiñung (Mathews 1903)
- Darginjang
- Darginyung
- Darkinung
- Darkinoong
- Darknung
Sources
- R. H. Mathews (1903). "Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 33: 259–283.
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