Dhurga language
| Dhurga | |
|---|---|
| Region | New South Wales, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Dhurga (Yuin) |
Native speakers | Few surviving speakers |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dhu |
| Glottolog |
dhur1239[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] |
S53 |
Dhurga (Thurga) is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales spoken around the Bega Valley (southern Yuin) area.[3] The language is tonal. The language does not have a word for "thank you"; in an interview with Graham Moore, a Yuin Elder who spoke the language, Moore stated, "We didn't have a word for thank you as we were quite a giving people."[4]
Dharamba and Walbanga may have been dialects.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dhurga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Dhurga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Interview with Graham Moore (Yuin Elder)
- ↑ Interview with Graham Moore (Yuin Elder)
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