Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Jeidji, Yeidji, Northern Language, Forrest River, 'Jeidji, Jeithi, Yeeji, 'Ye'dji, Bugay
CLASSIFICATION		Worrorran, Northern Worrorran
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		081
DOWNLOAD		As csv

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "The English-based pidgin lingua franca and Aboriginal English and English have taken their toll, with the young generation speaking these as their mother tongue."

						Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database						AIATSIS			Canberra					http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub					~10		10-99													Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
					2007	Australasia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	425-577		Christopher Moseley		Routledge			London and New York						Stephen Wurm	Stephen Wurm. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. 425-577. Routledge.						<50		10-99										"The English-based pidgin lingua franca and Aboriginal English and English have taken their toll, with the young generation speaking these as their mother tongue."			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Yiiji