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Ledji Ledji language

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Extinct
  
(date missing)

Glottolog
  
None

ISO 639-3
  
llj

AIATSIS
  
S23

Region
  
New South Wales, Victoria

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Kulinic Wemba-Wemba Madhi–Ladji–Wadi Ladji Ladji

Ladji Ladji (Ledji-Ledji) is an extinct Indigenous Australian language once spoken in New South Wales and Victoria.

Ladji Ladji is part of the Kulin branch of the Pama–Nyungan language family, which was spoken by the majority of Australian Aboriginies prior to European Colonisation.

The Ladji Ladji, lived on the Murray river at Mildura Victoria. White settlement of Mildura occurred in 1847.and in 1855, the Church of England Society founded the Old Pooncarie Mission located eight kilometres west of Pooncarie Township on the Darling River.

References

Ledji-Ledji language Wikipedia