Gunbarlang language
Appearance
Gunbarlang | |
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Warlang | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Arnhem Land |
Native speakers | 19 (2006 census)[1] |
Arnhem
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wlg |
Glottolog | kunb1251 |
AIATSIS[1] | N69 |
ELP | Kunbarlang |
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]
Geographic distribution
Some Gunbarlang speakers live in Warruwi on South Goulburn Island and Maningrida.
References
- ^ a b N69 Gunbarlang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xl.
- ^ Gunbarlang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Evans, N. (2003). Bininj Gun-Wok: A Pan-Dialectal Grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. ANU. p. 33.