Yalarnnga language

Yalarnnga (also Jalarnnga, Jalanga, Yelina, Yellunga, Yellanga, Yalarrnnga, Yalanga or Yalluna) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family, that may be related to the Kalkatungu language. It was formerly spoken by the Yalarnnga people in areas near the Gulf of Carpentaria the towns of Dajarra and Cloncurry in far northwestern Queensland. The last native speaker died in 1980. It is a suffixing agglutinative language with no attested prefixes.

Yalarnnga
RegionQueensland
EthnicityYalarnnga
Extinct1980
Language codes
ISO 639-3ylr
Glottologyala1262
AIATSISG8
ELPYalarnnga
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