Ladji Ladji (Ledji-Ledji) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language once widely spoken in New South Wales and Victoria by the Latjilatji (or Ladji Ladji) people.
Ladji Ladji | |
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Ledji-Ledji | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | New South Wales, Victoria |
Ethnicity | Latjilatji |
Native speakers | 10 (2005)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | llj |
Glottolog | ladj1234 |
AIATSIS[1] | S23 |
ELP | Ladji Ladji |
Ladji Ladji is part of the Kulin branch of the Pama–Nyungan family of languages, which were spoken by the majority of Australian Aborigines before Australia's colonisation by the British Empire.
References
edit- ^ a b S23 Ladji Ladji at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1