| Jaminjung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Victoria River (Northern Territory) |
Native speakers | 29 (2016)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | djd |
| Glottolog | djam1255 |
| AIATSIS[2] | N18 Jaminjung, N19 Ngaliwurru |
| ELP | Jaminjung |
| Ngaliwurru[3] | |
Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000.[4][1]
In 1971, Frances Kofod and others published a grammar of the Ngaliwuru language,[5] while in 2011 a book of Jaminjung & Ngaliwuru names and uses of plants & animals was published.[6]
- ^ a b Jaminjung at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ N18 Jaminjung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Ngaliwurru.
- ^ Schultze-Berndt 2000, pp. 13–14
- ^ Bolt, Janet E.; Hoddinott, William G.; Kofod, Frances M. (1971). An Elementary Grammar of the Ngaliwuru Language of the Northern Territory. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
- ^ Jones et al. 2011
