Flashcards: Australian Aboriginal languages

Iwaidja, in phonemic spelling Iwaja, is an Australian aboriginal language with about 150 speakers in northernmost Australia.

Djaru (Jaru) is a Pama–Nyungan language spoken in the Western Australia.

Badimaya (sometimes recorded as 'Parti-maya') is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Wajarri is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Worrorra (Worora), or Western Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of northern Western Australia.

Kuuk Thaayorre (Thayore) is a Paman language spoken in the settlement Pormpuraaw on the western part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia by the Thaayorre people.

Damin (Demiin in the practical orthography of Lardil) was a ceremonial language register used by the advanced initiated men of the aboriginal Lardil (Leerdil in the practical orthography) and the Yangkaal peoples of Australia.

Murrinh-patha (literally "language-good"), called Garama by the Jaminjung, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by over 2,500 people, most of whom live in Wadeye in the Northern Territory, where it is the dominant language of the community.

Ngumbur (Ngomburr) is a supposed extinct Australian Aboriginal language.

The Umbugarla language is an Australian language isolate once spoken by three people in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, in 1981, and is now extinct.

Marrithiyel (Marithiel, Maridhiel, Maridhiyel), also known as Berringen (Bringen, Brinken) is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Marri Ngarr (Maringarr, Marenggar, Maringa) is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Daungwurrung (Taungurong, Dhagung-wurrung) is the extinct Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Taungurong people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria.

Dyirbal /ˈdʒɜːrbəl/ (also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by about 29 speakers of the Dyirbal tribe.

The Warlpiri (/ˈwɑːrlbri/ or /ˈwɔːlpəri/) language is spoken by about 3,000 of the Warlpiri people in Australia's Northern Territory.

Alawa (Galawa) is a moribund Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Alawa people of the Northern Territory.

Wambaya is a Non-Pama-Nyungan West Barkly Australian language of the Mirndi language group that is spoken in the Barkly Tableland of the Northern Territory, Australia.

The Tasmanian or Palawa languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania.

Enindhilyagwa (also Anindilyakwa and several other names; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Warnindhilyagwa people on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Garawa (or Garrwa, Gaarwa, Karawa, Leearrawa) is an Australian Aboriginal language of northern Australia.

Giimbiyu is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language isolate of northern Australia.

Wardaman is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Gooniyandi is an Australian Aboriginal language now spoken by about 100 people, most of whom live in or near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia.

The name of the language has various spellings as recorded by both Mathews and W.