Jurruru language

Jurruru is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its name has also been spelt Chooraroo, Choororoo, Churoro, Djuroro, Djururo, Djurruru, Dyururu, Jururu, Thuraru, Tjororo, Tjuroro, Tjururo, and Tjururu.

Jurruru
RegionPilbara, Western Australia
EthnicityTjuroro people
Extinct2 speakers left in 1967.
No speakers by 1986.[1]
Pama–Nyungan
  • Ngayarta
    • Jurruru
Language codes
ISO 639-3tju
Glottologtjur1240[2]
AIATSIS[3]W33

Footnotes

  1. Thieberger (1993).
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tjurruru". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. W33 Jurruru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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gollark: UEFI has the EFI shell, which is *kind of* a programming language.
gollark: I mean, as much as you may dislike programming languages being in bootloaders etc., someone will inevitably want scripting for some stupid reason and it's best to at least have a sensible, principled, usable programming language instead of an awful adhoc one.
gollark: Not even FÖRTH?
gollark: You can even sandbox it quite easily.

References

  • Thieberger, Nicholas (1993). "Jurruru". Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region. Pacific Linguistics.


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