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-group ...
of
New South Wales
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It is not listed in Bowern (2011), but the people are ethnically Yuin. The only attestation of the language are manuscripts and a
grammar dating from 1902. It is sometimes classified with
Thawa as a dialect of
Southern Coastal Yuin
Tharawal, also spelt Thurawal and Dharawal, is a small family of extinct Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken along the South Coast of New South Wales.
Number of languages in the group
According to Bob Dixon (2002), four Tharawal la ...
.
Bermagui Public School, a primary school in
Bermagui, has taught local Aboriginal languages including Djiringanj and the
Dhurga language
The Dhurga language, also written Thurga, is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales. It is a language of the Yuin people, specifically the Wandandian and Walbunja groups, but there have been no fluent speakers officially recorde ...
, 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
(Als
here)
Tharawal languages
Extinct languages of New South Wales
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