Nari-Nari dialect
| Nari Nari | |
|---|---|
| Region | New South Wales |
| Ethnicity | Nari-Nari people |
| Extinct | early 20th century, with the death of Angus Myers[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rnr |
| Glottolog | nari1241 |
| AIATSIS[3] | D9 |
| ELP | Nari Nari |
Nari Nari is an extinct Indigenous Australian dialect of Wemba Wemba[4] once spoken in New South Wales. The last person who could speak Nari Nari was Angus Myers, a Jitajita man.[1] It was last recorded in 1967, but date of extinction is unknown.
Revival
As of 2020, the Nari Nari dialect[5] is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages—those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".[6]
References
- ^ a b Hercus, Luise A. (1979), "A Note on Narinari", Papers in Australian Linguistics 11, Pacific Linguistics: Series A, vol. 51, Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, pp. 119–132, doi:10.15144/PL-A51, retrieved 2026-03-07
- ^ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
- ^ a b D9 Nari Nari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ "Glottolog 5.3 - Nari Nari". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2026-03-07.
- ^ "D9: Nari Nari". Austlang. AIATSIS. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2020.