Ritharrngu language

{{short description|Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{redirect|Wagilag language|the Wagilag sisters myth|Wawalag}}

{{Use Australian English|date=October 2018}}

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{{Infobox language

|name=Ritharnggu

|altname=Ritarungo, Ritharrŋu, etc.

|states=Australia

|region=Northern Territory

|ethnicity=Ritharrngu

|speakers=9

|date=2021 census, listed as "Wagilak"

|ref={{cite web|title=SBS Australian Census Explorer|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/creative/census-explorer|access-date=16 Dec 2023}}

|familycolor=Australian

|fam1=Pama–Nyungan

|fam2=Yolngu Matha

|fam3=Southern (Dhuwal)

|dia1=Ritharngu

|dia2=Wagilak

|sign=Yolŋu Sign Language

|iso3=rit

|glotto=rita1239

|glottorefname=Ritarungo

|aiatsis=N104

}}

The Ritharnggu language (Ritharrŋu, Ritharngu, Ritarungo) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yolŋu language group, spoken in Australia's Northern Territory.

Dialects align with the two kinship moieties of the Ritharrngu people, one of several Yolngu peoples: (a) Ritharnggu (Yirritja moiety), and (b) Wagilak language (Dua moiety).{{cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |author-link=R. M. W. Dixon |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780|page=xxxvi}} The Manggurra (the other Dua clan) now speak Ritharnggu, but apparently shifted from Nunggubuyu.