Thaagurda (sometimes written Daguda) 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 ...
in the
Mid West
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region of
Western Australia
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.
It is a member of the
Kartu subgroup of the
Pama–Nyungan family. According to Marmion (1996) the language has no speakers or individuals who identify with this group as their ethnicity, and there were only a few elderly people who recalled the name and some sentences from the language. This information was however sufficient to indicate that Thaagurda was likely a distinct language from its neighbours
Nhanda
The Nhanda people, also spelt Nanda, Nhunda, Nhanta, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people who live in the mid-west region of Western Australia around the mouth of the Murchison River.
Language
The traditional language of t ...
,
Malgana
The Malgana are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.
Language
Malgana belongs to the Kartu language family. It died out by the mid-20th century, but a salvage grammar of the language, based on old recordings and records, was ...
and
Wajarri
The Wajarri people, also spelt Wadjari, Wadjarri, Watjarri, and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Boolardy Station, along with the tiny settlement of ...
.
Sources
*Marmion, Douglas. 1996. ''A description of the morphology of Wajarri''. Unpublished Hons. thesis, University of New England.
{{Pama–Nyungan languages, West
Kartu languages