Ngadjunmaya language

Ngadjunmaya (Ngajumaya) is a recently extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that was located in the Goldfields-Esperance region.

Ngadjunmaya
Native toAustralia
RegionGoldfields-Esperance; Eyre’s Sand Patch, Goddard Creek to Port Malcolm, to Fraser Range, to Naretha and Point Culver, at Mount Andres, Russell Range, Balladonia, and Norseman
EthnicityNgadjunmaia, ?Murunitja
Native speakers
"very few speakers" (2008);[1] "probably recently extinct" (2007)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nju
Glottologngad1258[3]
AIATSIS[1]A3

Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjunmaya or of Mirning.

References

  1. A3 Ngadjunmaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Ngadjunmaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngadjunmaya". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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