Jukun or Djugun is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia. There are no longer any fluent speakers of Jukun, but some people may remember it to some degree. It is an Eastern Nyulnyulan language, closely related to Yawuru.[2]
| Jukun | |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Jukun |
| Extinct | by 1982[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dyd |
| Glottolog | dyug1238 |
| AIATSIS[1] | K2 |
Notes
edit- ^ a b K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Djugun dialect at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
References
edit- Nekes, H.; Worms, E. A. (1953). Australian Languages. Fribourg: Anthropos Institut.
- Stokes, B; McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages". In N. Evans (ed.). The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent's Most Linguistically Complex Region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 29–74.
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