Yuin–Kuric languages

{{Short description|Family of Australian Aboriginal languages}}

{{Use Australian English|date=December 2014}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2014}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Yuin–Kuric

|region=New South Wales, ACT, and SE Queensland, Australia

|ethnicity=Yuin, Eora, Koori

|familycolor=Australian

|fam1=Pama–Nyungan

|fam2=Southeast

|fam3=New South Wales

|child1=Yuin

|child3=Kuri

|child2=Yora

|glotto=yuin1243

|glottorefname=Yuin–Kuri

|map=Yuin-Kuric languages.png

|mapcaption=Yuin–Kuric languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). From southwest to northeast, the three groups are Yuin, Yora, and Kuri.

}}

The Yuin–Kuric languages are a group of mainly extinct Australian Aboriginal languages traditionally spoken in the south east of Australia. They belong in the Pama–Nyungan family.[http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/thesaurus/language/mtw.exe?k=default&l=60&linkType=term&w=87&n=1&s=5&t=2 AIATSIS Language and Peoples Thesaurus] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009084808/http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/thesaurus/language/mtw.exe?k=default&l=60&linkType=term&w=87&n=1&s=5&t=2 |date=9 October 2009 }}, accessed 23 Jan 2010. These languages are divided into the Yuin, Kuri, and Yora groups, although exact classifications vary between researchers.{{Cite book |author1=Wafer, Jim |author2=Lissarrague, Amanda |year= 2008 |title="A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory" |location=Nambucca Heads |publisher= Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative |pages=101-193}} Yuin–Kuric languages were spoken by the original inhabitants of what are now the cities of Sydney and Canberra.

The name of this grouping was coined by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1919,{{Cite book |last=Schmidt |first=Wilhelm |year=1919 |title= Die Gliederung der australischen Sprachen: Geographische, bibliographische, linguistische Grundzüge der Erforschung der australischen Sprachen |location= Vienna |publisher= Mechitharisten Buchdruckerei}} and it refers to the two groups which define the geographical extent of the subgroup. The labels of all three subgroups reflect the word for 'man' or 'Aboriginal person' in their respective included languages.

The koala is named from the word gula for the animal in the Dharug language,{{cite book |author1=Dixon, R.M.W. |author2=Moore, Bruce |author3=Ramson, W. S. |author4=Thomas, Mandy |year=2006 |title=Australian Aboriginal Words in English: Their Origin and Meaning |edition=2nd |location=South Melbourne |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=64|isbn=0-19-554073-5}} a Yuin–Kuri language within the Yora group, and the same word occurs in other Yuin–Kuri languages, such as Gundungurra,Eugene Stockton, Blue Mountains Dreaming: The Aboriginal Heritage, Three Sisters Productions, 1993, p. 88, {{ISBN|0-646-14883-4}}. within the Yuin group.

{{as of|2020}}, Yuin is listed as one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".{{cite web|website=First Languages Australia|url=https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/projects/plsp|title=Priority Languages Support Project|access-date=14 January 2020}}