Gajirrabeng dialect

Gajirrabeng
Region	The Kimberley, Western Australia; Northern Territory, north coast from Wyndham to mouth of Victoria River and inland
Ethnicity	Gadjerong
Native speakers	2 (2005)[1]
Language family	Jarrakan Miriwung Gajirrabeng; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gdh
Glottolog	gadj1243[2]
AIATSIS[1]	K37.1

Gajirrabeng (also spelt Gadjerawang, Gajirrawoong, Gadjerong, Gadyerong and Kajirrawung) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region, today known by only three or four fluent speakers.

The nearby Gurindji language is known to have borrowed from Gajirrabeng.[3]

References

K37.1 Gajirrabeng at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gajirrabeng". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
"Language: Gajirrabeng". World Loanword Database. Max Planck Society. Retrieved 10 February 2020.

McGregor, William (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia. London, New York: Taylor & Francis.

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[AIATSIS-1] K37.1 Gajirrabeng at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gajirrabeng". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] "Language: Gajirrabeng". World Loanword Database. Max Planck Society. Retrieved 10 February 2020.