| Guragone | |
|---|---|
| Gungurugoni | |
| Region | Northern Territory |
| Ethnicity | Gungurugoni |
Native speakers | 40 (2021 census)[1] |
Macro-Gunwinyguan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gge |
| Glottolog | gura1252 |
| AIATSIS[2] | N75 |
| ELP | Gurr-goni |
Gurr-goni, also spelled Guragone, Gorogone, Gun-Guragone, Gunagoragone, Gungorogone, Gurrogone, Gutjertabia, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Arnhem Land. There were about 60 speakers in 2011, all trilingual in Burarra or Kuninjku.[3]
References
- ↑ "SBS Australian Census Explorer". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ↑ N75 Guragone at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Gurr-Goni language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
- Capell, A. 1942. Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia. Oceania, 12 (4), 364-392.
- Elwell, Vanessa. 1977. Multilingualism and lingua francas among Australian Aborigines: A case study of Maningrida. Honours Thesis, Australian National University.
- Elwell, Vanessa. 1982. Some social factors affecting multilingualism among Aboriginal Australians: a case study of Maningrida. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 36: 83-103.
- Green, Rebecca. 1995. A Grammar of Gurr-goni. PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Green, Rebecca. 2003. Gurr-goni, a minority language in a multilingual community: Surviving into the 21st century. In Blythe, Joe and Brown, R. McKenna (eds.),Maintaining the links: language, identity and the land. Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, Broome, 22–24 September 2003. Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
- Green, Rebecca. 2003. Proto Maningrida within Proto Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes. In N. Evans (Ed.), The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region (pp. 369–421). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Handelsmann, Robert. 1996. Needs Survey of Community Languages: Central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (Maningrida and Outstations). Report to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra.
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