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Yalarnnga (also Jalarnnga, Jalanga, Yelina, Yellunga, Yellanga, Yalarrnnga, Yalanga or Yalluna) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family, that may be related to the Kalkatungu language. 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. The last native speaker died in 1980. It is a suffixing agglutinative language with no attested prefixes.

Classification

Yalarnnga is sometimes grouped with Kalkatungu as the Kalkatungic (Galgadungic) branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. O'Grady et al., however, classify Kalkatungu as the sole member of the "Kalkatungic group" of the Pama-Nyungan family, and Dixon (2002) regards Kalkatungic as an areal group.

Vocabulary

Some words from the Yalarnnga language, as spelt and written by Yalarnnga authors include:

• Kuyungu mungatha: good day
• Karlu / karlo: father
• Mernoo: mother
• Woothane: white man
• Kathirr: grass
• Karni: shoulder
• Katyimpa: two
• Kunyu: water
• Karrkuru: yellowbelly (fish)
• Monero: tame dog

References

1. ^ G8 Yalarnnga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. ^ Breen, Gavan (2007). The grammar of Yalarnnga : a language of western Queensland. Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. ISBN 978-0858835672.
3. ^ This Misplaced Pages article incorporates text from Yulluna published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 20 May 2022.
4. ^ This Misplaced Pages article incorporates text from Yalarnnga published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 16 May 2022.
5. Breen, Gavan; Blake, Barry J. (2007). The grammar of Yalarnnga : a language of western Queensland. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-567-2.
6. O'Grady, Geoffrey N.; Voegelin, Charles F.; Voegelin, Florence M. (1966). "Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Six" (PDF). Anthropological Linguistics. 8 (2): 1–197. JSTOR 30029431.
7. Dixon, R. M. W. (2003). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521473781.
8. Eglinton, E. (1886). "The Burke River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 346–349.

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