Kungarakany language

Kungarakany
	Gungaragany
	Koongurrukuñ
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Kungarakan people
Extinct	1989, with the death of Madeline England
Language family	Macro-Gunwinyguan? Kungarakany;
Dialects	Gungarakanj; ? Mukngirru;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ggk
Glottolog	kung1259[1]
AIATSIS[2]	N14
	; Kungarakany (at left of colored area)

Kungarakany or Kungarakan (Gunerakan, Gungaragan, Gungarakanj, Kangarraga) is an extinct Australian language spoken in the Northern Territory. Mukngirru was likely a dialect. It became extinct after the last speaker, Madeline England, died in 1989.

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kungarakany". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
N14 Kungarakany at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kungarakany". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[AIATSIS-2] N14 Kungarakany at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies