| Gurindji Kriol | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Kalkaringi and Dagaragu, Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Total speakers | ? | |
| Language family | Mixed language. | |
| Writing system | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gurindji Kriol is the main language of the Gurindji people of Kalkaringi and Dagaragu in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a mixed language, derived from Kriol, an English-based creole, and Gurindji, the traditional Australian Aboriginal language of the Gurindji people, now spoken fluently only by older people.
References
- McConvell, Patrick; Meakins, Felicity (April 2005). "Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code-switching". Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 9–30. doi:.
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