Djugun dialect

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]

Not to be confused with Jukun Takum language or Jukunoid languages.
"DYD" redirects here. Not to be confused with Jean d'Yd.

Jukun
RegionWestern Australia
EthnicityJukun
Extinctby 1982[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3dyd
Glottologdyug1238
AIATSIS[1]K2

Notes
  1. K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Djugun dialect at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access

References
  • 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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