Laragiya language
Encyclopedia
The Laragiya language is an Australian
language isolate
spoken by just six people near the city of Darwin
in northern Australia as of 1983. Ethnologue (2009) reported that it was extinct.
Laragiya is not known to be related to any other language in the world.
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...
language isolate
Language isolate
A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. They are in effect language families consisting of a single...
spoken by just six people near the city of Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
in northern Australia as of 1983. Ethnologue (2009) reported that it was extinct.
Laragiya is not known to be related to any other language in the world.
External links
- Resources in and about the Laragia language, Open Language Archives website (accessed 3 December 2010)