Amurdak language

Amurdak
RegionOenpelli, Goulburn Island, Northern Territory
EthnicityAmurdak
Native speakers
1 (2020)
See Status[1]
Iwaidjan
  • Amurdak
Dialects
  • Urrirk
  • Gidjurra
Language codes
ISO 639-3amg
Glottologamar1271
AIATSIS[2]N47
ELPAmurdak

Amurdak, also rendered Amurdag, Amurdak, Amurag, Amarag and Wureidbug, is an Aboriginal Australian language historically spoken in an area around the eastern coast of Van Diemen Gulf, in the Northern Territory of Australia. No speakers were recorded in 2021, so it may be extinct.

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. ^ N47 Amurdak at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies