Gamilaraay language

Gamilaraay
Darling tributaries
Native toAustralia
RegionCentral northern New South Wales
EthnicityGamilaraay, Ualarai, Kawambarai
Extinct"recently extinct" as of 2007[1][2][3]
Revival1065 claim to speak Gamilaraay (2021 census)
Dialects
  • Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi)
  • Yuwaalaraay (Euahlayi)
  • Yuwaalayaay (Yuwaaliyaay)
  • Guyinbaraay (Gunjbaraay)
  • Gawambaraay (Kawambarai)
  • Wirray Wirray (Wiriwiri)
  • Waalaraay (Walaraay)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kld
Glottologgami1243
AIATSIS[4]D23
ELPGamilaraay
 Yuwaalaraay[5]
A map of the tribes of New South Wales, published in 1892. Gamilaraay is marked I.
Gamilaraay is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Gamilaraay or Kamilaroi language is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in south-eastern Australia. It is the traditional language of the Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi), an Aboriginal Australian people. It has been noted as endangered, but the number of speakers grew from 87 in the 2011 Australian Census to 105 in the 2016 Australian Census. Thousands of Australians identify as Gamilaraay, and the language is taught in some schools.

Wirray Wirray, Guyinbaraay, Yuwaalayaay, Waalaraay and Gawambaraay are dialects; Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi is a closely related language.

  1. ^ Gamilaraay language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference austlangd23 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ D23 Gamilaraay at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  5. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Yuwaalaraay.