Darkinjung language
| Darginjüng | |
|---|---|
| Hawkesbury–MacDonald River | |
| Region | New South Wales, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Darkinjung people |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
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Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
Darrkinyung
Hawkesbury River–Broken Bay?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xda |
| Glottolog | hawk1239[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] | S65 |
Darginjüng (Darrkinyung; many other spellings; see below) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Darkinjung people. It was spoken adjacent to Dharuk, Wiradhuri, Guringai Language and Awabakal.
Name
The name of the language has various spellings:
- Darkinjang (Tindale 1974)
- Darkinjung
- Darkiñung (Mathews 1903)
- Darrkinyung
- Darginjang
- Darginyung
- Darkinung
- Darkinoong
- Darknüng
Revitalisation effort
Since 2003 there has been a movement from the Darkinyung language group to revitalise the language. They started working with the original field reports of Robert H. Mathews and W. J. Enright. Where there were gaps in the sparsely populated wordlists, words were taken from lexically similar nearby languages. This led to the publication of the work Darkinyung grammar and dictionary: revitalising a language from historical sources.[3]
References
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- ↑ Darginjüng at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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External links
- Bibliography of Darkinjung people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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