Popham Bay language
Encyclopedia
The Popham Bay language, Wurrugu, is an extinct
Australian Aboriginal language
. It is known from just a few 19th-century wordlists and one rememberer
.
Language death
In linguistics, language death is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language variety is decreased, eventually resulting in no native and/or fluent speakers of the variety...
Australian Aboriginal language
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...
. It is known from just a few 19th-century wordlists and one rememberer
Rememberer
In linguistics, a rememberer is a person who knows individual words or phrases of a dying or dead language, but cannot use the language productively. This is contrasted with fluent or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it....
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