Gunbarlang language

Gunbarlang
Warlang
Native toAustralia
RegionArnhem Land
EthnicityGambalang
Extinctby 2016[1]
Arnhem
Dialects
  • Djimbilirri
  • Gurrigurri
  • Gumunggurdu
  • Marrabanggu
  • Marranumbu
  • Gunguluwala[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3wlg
Glottologkunb1251
AIATSIS[3]N69
ELPKunbarlang

Gunbarlang, or Kunbarlang, is an Australian Aboriginal language in northern Australia with multiple dialects. Other names are Gungalang and Warlang. Speakers are multilingual in Kunwinjku and Mawng. Most of the Gunbarlang people now speak Kunwinjku.[4]

The language is part of a language revival project, as a critically endangered language.

  1. ^ ABS. "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  2. ^ Dixon 2002, p. xl
  3. ^ N69 Gunbarlang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ^ Gunbarlang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)