Extinct Australian Aboriginal language
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 .