Kungarakany language
Kungarakany or Kungarakan (Gunerakan, Gungaragan, Gungarakanj, Kangarraga) 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.
Kungarakany | |
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Gungaragany | |
Koongurrukuñ | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Northern Territory |
Ethnicity | Kungarakan people |
Extinct | 1989, with the death of Madeline England |
Macro-Gunwinyguan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ggk |
Glottolog | kung1259 [1] |
AIATSIS[2] | N14 |
Kungarakany (at left of colored area) |
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kungarakany". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- N14 Kungarakany at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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