Region Western Australia Writing system Latin | Language family Worrorran
Ngarinyin | |
Native speakers 56 Ungarinyin (2006 census)
plus 2 Andajin (2009) Dialects Ungarinjin
Guwidj (Orla)
Waladja
Ngarnawu
Andadjin
Munumburru
Wolyamidi
Waladjangarri ISO 639-3 Either:
ung – Ngarinyin
ajn – Andajin | ||
The Ngarinyin language (Ungarinjin), or Eastern Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.
Classification
Ngarinyin is one of the Worrorran languages. It is a dialect cluster, and may be considered more than a single language; Bowern (2011) lists Ngarinyin, Andajin, and Worla.
References
Ngarinyin language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA