Yalarnnga language

Yalarnnga (also Jalarnnga, Jalanga, Yelina, Yellunga, Yellanga, Yalarrnnga, Yalanga or Yalluna^[2]) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family, that may be related to the Kalkatungu language.^[1][3] It was formerly spoken by the Yalarnnga people in areas near the Gulf of Carpentaria the towns of Dajarra and Cloncurry in far northwestern Queensland.^[3][4] The last native speaker died in 1980.^[5] It is a suffixing agglutinative language with no attested prefixes.^[2]

Yalarnnga
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Yalarnnga
Extinct	1980
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Galgadungic? Yalarnnga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ylr
Glottolog	yala1262
AIATSIS[1]	G8
ELP	Yalarnnga

Classification

Yalarnnga is sometimes grouped with Kalkatungu as the Kalkatungic (Galgadungic) branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. O'Grady et al.,^[6] however, classify Kalkatungu as the sole member of the "Kalkatungic group" of the Pama-Nyungan family, and Dixon (2002)^[7] regards Kalkatungic as an areal group.

Vocabulary

Some words from the Yalarnnga language, as spelt and written by Yalarnnga authors include:^[4][8]

• Kuyungu mungatha: good day
• Karlu / karlo: father
• Mernoo: mother
• Woothane: white man
• Kathirr: grass
• Karni: shoulder
• Katyimpa: two
• Kunyu: water
• Karrkuru: yellowbelly (fish)
• Monero: tame dog