Kungkari language

Kungkari (also Gunggari, Koonkerri, Kuungkari) is an extinct and unclassified Australian Aboriginal language.[1] The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.[2]

Not to be confused with Gunggari language.

Kungkari
Kuungkari of Barcoo River
Native toAustralia
Extinct(date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Karnic)
    • Kungkari
Language codes
ISO 639-3lku
Glottologkuun1236
AIATSIS[1]L38
ELPKungkari

Classification

Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.

Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language.[3]: 247 

Wafer and Lissarrague (2008)[4]: 324  report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990)[5]: 22–64  is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.[3]

References
  1. L38 Kungkari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Kuungkari published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 25 May 2022.
  3. Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. (eds.). Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021.
  4. Wafer, Jim; Lissarrague, Amanda (2008). A Handbook of Aboriginal Languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative.
  5. Breen, Gavan (1990). Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages (PDF). Pacific Linguistics B-105. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.


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