Dhurga

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Dhurga is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken by the Yuin people of the south coast of New South Wales.

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instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Yuin language
endangered language
alternateName Dhurga language NERFINISHED
Durga NERFINISHED
Thurga NERFINISHED
associatedPeople Batemans Bay area Aboriginal communities
Walbanga NERFINISHED
Yuin NERFINISHED
australianInstituteOfAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderStudiesCode S53
country Australia
culturalRole key marker of Yuin identity
ethnicGroup Yuin people NERFINISHED
glottologCode dhur1238
glottologName Dhurga NERFINISHED
hasGrammarPublication Dhurga grammar and dictionary-type materials
hasMorphology case-marking on nouns
rich verbal inflection
hasNeighbouringLanguage Dhurga-Djiringanj continuum NERFINISHED
Djiringanj NERFINISHED
Ngarigo NERFINISHED
Tharawal NERFINISHED
Thaua NERFINISHED
Walbunja NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between stops and nasals
three-vowel system (a, i, u) as commonly analysed
hasResource Dhurga learners’ grammar and dictionary
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isDocumentedIn Australian Indigenous languages databases
iso639-3Code dhu
isPartOf Yuin–Kuric branch of Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED
isTaughtAt some schools on the south coast of New South Wales
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
region South Coast, New South Wales NERFINISHED
revitalisationEffort community-based language programs
documentation by linguists and community elders
spokenIn Australia NERFINISHED
New South Wales NERFINISHED
status revival language
severely endangered
subfamily Yuin–Kuric languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Yuin languages NERFINISHED
traditionalRegion south coast of New South Wales NERFINISHED
traditionalTerritoryExtent roughly from Jervis Bay to Moruya region
usedFor cultural revitalisation
language education in local schools
wordOrder relatively free word order

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