| 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]
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.
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