Yalarnnga language
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Yalarnnga is an extinct
Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family, and is closely related to the Kalkatungu language
. It was formerly spoken in areas near the town of Dajarra, in far northwestern Queensland. The last native speaker died in 1980.
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 of the Pama–Nyungan family, and is closely related to the Kalkatungu language
Kalkatungu language
Kalkatungu is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken around the area of Mount Isa, Queensland.-Classification:...
. It was formerly spoken in areas near the town of Dajarra, in far northwestern Queensland. The last native speaker died in 1980.