Dyirringañ, also spelt Dyirringany and Djiringanj, is an
Australian Aboriginal language
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
of the
Yuin people
The Yuin nation, also spelt Djuwin, is a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, one or more of the Yuin language dialects. Sub-groupi ...
of New South Wales.
It is not listed in Bowern (2011), but the people are ethnically Yuin. The only attestation of the language are manuscripts and a Linguistic description, grammar dating from 1902. It is sometimes classified with Thawa language, Thawa as a dialect of Southern Coastal Yuin.
Bermagui Public School, a primary school in Bermagui, New South Wales, Bermagui, has taught local Aboriginal languages including Djiringanj and the Dhurga language, along with the associated cultures, since 2019.
References
External links
Selected bibliography of material on the Djirringany / Dyirringany language and people held in the AIATSIS Library at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Als
here)
Tharawal languages
Extinct languages of New South Wales
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