Endangered Iwaidjan language of Australia's Northern Territory
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Amurdak
Region
Oenpelli, Goulburn Island, Northern Territory
Ethnicity
Amurdak
Extinct
2021[1] See Status
Language family
Iwaidjan
Amurdak
Dialects
Urrirk
Gidjurra
Language codes
ISO 639-3
amg
Glottolog
amar1271
AIATSIS[2]
N47
ELP
Amurdak
Amurdak, also rendered Amurdag, Amurdak, Amurag, Amarag and Wureidbug, is an Aboriginal Australian language historically spoken in an area around the eastern coast of Van Diemen Gulf, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is considered to be a recently extinct language, the last recorded fluent speaker left being in 2021.[citation needed]
^Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^N47 Amurdak at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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