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Gajirrabeng dialect

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Native speakers
  
2 (2005)

Glottolog
  
gadj1243

ISO 639-3
  
gdh

AIATSIS
  
K37.1

Region
  
The Kimberley, Western Australia; Northern Territory, north coast from Wyndham to mouth of Victoria River and inland.

Language family
  
Jarrakan Miriwung Gajirrabeng

Gajirrabeng (also spelt Gadjerawang, Gajirrawoong, Gadjerong, Gadyerong and Kajirrawung) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region, today known by only three or four fluent speakers.

The nearby Gurindji language is known to have borrowed from Gajirrabeng.

References

Gajirrabeng dialect Wikipedia