Gamilaraay

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Gamilaraay is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) people of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gamilaraay canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
endangered language
AIATSISCode D23
closelyRelatedTo Yuwaalaraay language
Yuwaaliyaay language
linked to: Wayilwan language
country Australia
ethnicGroup Gamilaraay people
Kamilaroi people
hasAlternativeName Gamilaroi
Gamilroi
Kamilaroi
linked to: Kamilaroi people
hasDialect Yuwaalaraay
Yuwaaliyaay
linked to: Yuwaalayaay
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology
case marking by suffixes
ergative–absolutive alignment
split tense–aspect system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
lamino-dental consonants
retroflex consonants
three-vowel system
hasRevitalizationEffort community language programs
online learning resources
school language curricula
university teaching programs
hasWordOrder SOV as common order
relatively free word order
ISO639-3Code kld
languageBranch Wiradhuric languages
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan
region border region of New South Wales and Queensland
north-central New South Wales
spokenIn Australia
New South Wales
Queensland
status revival language
severely endangered language
subclassOf Aboriginal language of New South Wales
Aboriginal language of Queensland
traditionalRegion northern New South Wales
southern Queensland
usedFor place names in northern New South Wales
place names in southern Queensland
song and ceremony
traditional stories
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Gamilaraay people hasEthnonym Gamilaraay
Wee Waa aboriginalLanguageGroup Gamilaraay
Gamilaroi alternativeName Gamilaraay
Gamilroi hasAlternativeName Gamilaraay
Gamilroi hasDialects Gamilaraay
Yuwaalayaay closelyRelatedTo Gamilaraay
Peter Austin languageStudied Gamilaraay
subject linked to: linguist Peter Austin
Nick Reid languageStudied Gamilaraay
subject linked to: linguist Nick Reid
Hilary Smith languageDocumented Gamilaraay
subject linked to: linguist Hilary Smith