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Gunbarlang
Warlang
Native toAustralia
RegionArnhem Land
Native speakers
19 (2006 census)[1]
Arnhem
Dialects
  • Djimbilirri
  • Gurrigurri
  • Gumunggurdu
  • Marrabanggu
  • Marranumbu
  • Gunguluwala[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3wlg
Glottologkunb1251
AIATSIS[1]N69
ELPKunbarlang

Gunbarlang (Kunbarlang) is an Australian Aboriginal language in northern Australia with multiple dialects. Other names are Gungalang and Warlang. Most of the ethnic group now speaks Gunwinygu.[3]

Classification

Gunbarlang is tentatively included into the Marne group of Gunwinyguan family[4]

References

  1. ^ a b N69 Gunbarlang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xl.
  3. ^ Gunbarlang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  4. ^ Evans, N. (2003). Bininj Gun-Wok: A Pan-Dialectal Grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. ANU. p. 33.