Djugun dialect

{{Short description|Extinct Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{Distinguish|Jukun Takum language|Jukunoid languages}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Jukun

| region = Western Australia

| ethnicity = Jukun

| extinct = by 1982

| ref = aiatsis

| familycolor = Australian

| fam1 = Nyulnyulan

| fam2 = Eastern

| fam3 = Yawuru

| script = Latin

| iso3 = dyd

| glotto = dyug1238

| glottorefname = Dyugun

| aiatsis = K2

| speakers2 = rememberers possible

}}

Jukun or Djugun is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia. There are no longer any fluent speakers of Jukun, but some people may remember it to some degree. It is an Eastern Nyulnyulan language, closely related to Yawuru.{{e25|dyd}}

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References

  • {{cite book |last=Nekes |first=H. |author2=Worms, E. A. |year=1953 |title=Australian Languages |location=Fribourg |publisher=Anthropos Institut}}
  • {{cite book |last=Stokes |first=B |author2=McGregor, W. B. |year=2003 |chapter=Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages |editor=N. Evans |title=The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent's Most Linguistically Complex Region |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |pages=29–74}}

{{Australian Aboriginal languages}}

Category:Nyulnyulan languages

Category:Extinct languages of Western Australia

Category:Languages extinct in the 1980s

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