Yalarnnga | |
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Region | Queensland |
Ethnicity | Yalarnnga |
Extinct | 1980 |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ylr |
Glottolog | yala1262 |
AIATSIS[1] | G8 |
ELP | Yalarnnga |
Yalarnnga (also Jalarnnga, Jalanga, Yelina, Yellunga, Yellanga, Yalarrnnga, YalangaorYalluna[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]
Yalarnnga is sometimes grouped with Kalkatungu as the Kalkatungic (Galgadungic) branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. O'Grady et al.,[6] however, classify Kalkatungu as the sole member of the "Kalkatungic group" of the Pama-Nyungan family, and Dixon (2002)[7] regards Kalkatungic as an areal group.
Some words from the Yalarnnga language, as spelt and written by Yalarnnga authors include:[4][8]
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