Gurr-goni, also spelled Guragone, Gorogone, Gun-Guragone, Gunagoragone, Gungorogone, Gurrogone, Gutjertabia, 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 ...

spoken in

Arnhem Land Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia, with the term still in use. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Compan ...

. There were about 60 speakers in 2011, all trilingual in Burarra or Kuninjku.

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*Capell, A. 1942. Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia. ''Oceania'','' 12'' (4), 364-392. *Elwell, Vanessa. 1977. Multilingualism and lingua francas among Australian Aborigines: A case study of Maningrida. Honours Thesis, Australian National University. *Elwell, Vanessa. 1982. Some social factors affecting multilingualism among Aboriginal Australians: a case study of Maningrida. ''International Journal of the Sociology of Language'' 36: 83-103. *Green, Rebecca. 1995. ''A Grammar of Gurr-goni. ''PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra. *Green, Rebecca. 2003. Gurr-goni, a minority language in a multilingual community: Surviving into the 21st century. In Blythe, Joe and Brown, R. McKenna (eds.),''Maintaining the links: language, identity and the land.'' Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, Broome, 22–24 September 2003. Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages. *Green, Rebecca. 2003. Proto Maningrida within Proto Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes. In N. Evans (Ed.), ''The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region ''(pp. 369–421). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. *Handelsmann, Robert. 1996. Needs Survey of Community Languages: Central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (Maningrida and Outstations). Report to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Canberra. {{Australian Aboriginal languages Maningrida languages Indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory

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