| Yalarnnga | |
|---|---|
| Region | Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Yalarnnga |
| Extinct | 1980 |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ylr |
| Glottolog | yala1262 |
| AIATSIS[1] | G8 |
| ELP | Yalarnnga |
Yalarnnga (also Jalarnnga, Jalanga, Yelina, Yellunga, Yellanga, Yalarrnnga, Yalanga or Yalluna[2]) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family, that may be related to the Kalkatungu language.[1][3] It was formerly spoken by the Yalarnnga people in areas near the Gulf of Carpentaria the towns of Dajarra and Cloncurry in far northwestern Queensland.[3][4] The last native speaker died in 1980.[5] It is a suffixing agglutinative language with no attested prefixes.[2]
- ^ a b G8 Yalarnnga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ a b Breen, Gavan (2007). The grammar of Yalarnnga : a language of western Queensland. Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. ISBN 978-0858835672.
- ^ a b
This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Yulluna published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 20 May 2022.
- ^ This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Yalarnnga published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 16 May 2022.
- ^ Breen, Gavan; Blake, Barry J. (2007). The grammar of Yalarnnga : a language of western Queensland. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-567-2.
