Dhurga

E1023849

Dhurga is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken by the Yuin people of the south coast of New South Wales.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dhurga canonical 3
Dhurga–Thurga 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Yuin language
endangered language
alternateName Dhurga language
Durga
linked to: Goddess Durga

Thurga
associatedPeople Batemans Bay area Aboriginal communities
Walbanga
Yuin
australianInstituteOfAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderStudiesCode S53
country Australia
culturalRole key marker of Yuin identity
ethnicGroup Yuin people
glottologCode dhur1238
glottologName Dhurga
hasGrammarPublication Dhurga grammar and dictionary-type materials
hasMorphology case-marking on nouns
rich verbal inflection
hasNeighbouringLanguage Dhurga-Djiringanj continuum
Djiringanj
Ngarigo
linked to: Ngarigo-Monaro

Tharawal
linked to: Tharawal Country

Thaua
Walbunja
linked to: Walbanga
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between stops and nasals
three-vowel system (a, i, u) as commonly analysed
hasResource Dhurga learners’ grammar and dictionary
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isDocumentedIn Australian Indigenous languages databases
iso639-3Code dhu
isPartOf Yuin–Kuric branch of Pama–Nyungan
isTaughtAt some schools on the south coast of New South Wales
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
region South Coast, New South Wales
revitalisationEffort community-based language programs
documentation by linguists and community elders
spokenIn Australia
New South Wales
status revival language
severely endangered
subfamily Yuin–Kuric languages
subgroup Yuin languages
traditionalRegion south coast of New South Wales
traditionalTerritoryExtent roughly from Jervis Bay to Moruya region
usedFor cultural revitalisation
language education in local schools
wordOrder relatively free word order

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dhurga language hasAlternativeName Dhurga–Thurga
linked to: Dhurga
Dhurga language hasEndonym Dhurga
Dhurga glottologName Dhurga