Garadjari language
Garadjari (Karajarri, many other spellings; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Karajarri people.
| Garadjari | |
|---|---|
| Karajarri | |
| Region | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Karajarri |
Native speakers | 41 (2016 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gbd |
| Glottolog | kara1476[2] |
| AIATSIS[3] | A64 |
Name
The name has many spelling variants, including:
- Garadjari (used by A Grammar of Garadjari)
- Garadjiri
- Garadyari
- Garadyaria
- Gard'are
- Karadjeri (used by Ethnologue)
- Karajarri (used by the Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages and is the spelling selected by the Karajarri people for their native title claims[4][5])
- Karatjarri (used by Australian Languages)
- Karatyarri
- Karrajarra
- Karrajarri
Kurajarra / Guradjara is sometimes confused with Garadjari, but it appears to have been a separate language.[3]
References
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780.
- Sands, Anna Kristina (1989). A Grammar of Garadjari, Western Australia.
- Thieberger, Nicholas (1993). Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberley Region. Pacific Linguistics.
Notes
- ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karadjeri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- A64 Garadjari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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