Gija
[aka Gidja, Kidja, Kija]Classification: Jarrakan
·critically endangered
Classification: Jarrakan
·critically endangered
Gidja, Kidja, Kija, Kitja, Ku:tji, Kuitji, Kuitj, Gi:dj, Kwitj, Gwidji, Guidj, Guwidji, Kisah, Keha, Kisha, Kityu, Liej, Lungga, Longga, Loonga, Langgu, Lunga, Lungu, Paljarri, Djarak, Tjarak, War-ingari, Warrangari, Kutnalawaru, Miwa, Walki,Kitja |
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Jarrakan, non-Pama-Nyungan |
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ISO 639-3; Glottolog |
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gia, kitj1240 |
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Information from: “Gija (East Kimberley, Western Australia) - Language Snapshot” . Caroline De Dear, Francesco Possemato, Joe Blythe (2020) , Peter K. Austin · ELPublishing
Kimberley Kriol
Australian English
Information from: “How many languages were spoken in Australia?” . Claire Bowern (2011)
Information from: “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge
"In 1983, 100 or more still nomadic speakers were reported."
"Some literacy in it. ... The mother tongue of the children is the English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol, in which all adults are bilingual. ...the language is endangered."
Kriol