Martuthunira language

Martuthunira
RegionWestern Australia
EthnicityMardudunera
Extinct6 August 1995 with the death of Algy Paterson.
Language codes
ISO 639-3vma
Glottologmart1255
AIATSIS[1]W35
ELPMartuthunira
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Martuthunira is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, that was the traditional language of the Martuthunira people of Western Australia.

The last fluent speaker of Martuthunira, Algy Paterson, died on 6 August 1995. From 1980 he worked with the linguist Alan Dench to preserve Martuthunira in writing, and it is from their work that most of our knowledge of Martuthunira today comes.

  1. ^ W35 Martuthunira at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies