Darug language

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The Darug language is an Indigenous Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Darug people of the Sydney region in New South Wales.

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Label Occurrences
Darug language canonical 9

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
endangered language
AIATSISCode S64
alternateName Daruk language
Dharug language
Eora language
closelyRelatedTo Awabakal language
Darkinjung language
Gundungurra language
country Australia
culturalSignificance embodies traditional knowledge of Sydney region
key marker of Darug identity
documentedIn early colonial wordlists from Sydney region
ethnicity Darug people
hasDialect Coastal Darug
Inland Darug
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
suffixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between laminal and apical consonants
retroflex consonants
three-vowel system
hasSyntacticFeature basic word order SOV
historicalContactWith English language
impactOfColonisation language shift to English
severe decline in fluent speakers
ISO639-3Code drt
languageBranch Yuin–Kuric languages
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages
languageSubgroup Dharug language
surface form: Dharugic languages
location Greater Sydney region
surface form: Greater Sydney
region Greater Sydney region
surface form: Sydney region
revitalizationEffort community language classes in Sydney
production of wordlists and dictionaries
school-based teaching programs in New South Wales
use in Welcome to Country ceremonies
spokenBy Darug people
state New South Wales
status revival language
severely endangered language
traditionalTerritory Cumberland Plain
Hawkesbury region
surface form: Hawkesbury River region

Parramatta
surface form: Parramatta region

Sydney Basin
usedFor oral storytelling
song and dance traditions
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Darug people traditionalLanguage Darug language
Colebee languageSpoken Darug language
Boora clan (one of several historical clans) associatedLanguage Darug language
subject surface form: Boora clan
Yarramundi language Darug language
Maria Lock nativeLanguage Darug language
Nurragingy languageGroup Darug language