Djinba

E921826

Djinba is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

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Label Occurrences
Djinba canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Yolŋu language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Australia
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicity Djinba people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Djinba Yolŋu Matha NERFINISHED
Djinba language NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode djin1253
hasISO6393Code djb
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
suffixing language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages NERFINISHED
partOf Yolŋu languages NERFINISHED
region Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
spokenBy Yolŋu people NERFINISHED
state Northern Territory NERFINISHED
subfamily Yolŋu Matha NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication in some Yolŋu communities
oral storytelling
traditional ceremonies
usedIn Indigenous Australian communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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