Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō[3]) is a sleeping,[4] Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898,[3] later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.[2]
^ abY216 Ngaygungu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ abRMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
^ abRoth, Walter Edmund (1898), Some ethnological notes on the Atherton blacks (October 1898), Cooktown: Queensland Home Secretarys Department, Office of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals
^Wesley, Leonard Y. (2008), "When Is an "Extinct Language" Not Extinct?" (PDF), Susataining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: 23–34
Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō) is a sleeping, Australian Aboriginal language originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded...
Atherton, Queensland area who spoke, or whose ancestors once spoke, the Ngaygungulanguage. The Ngai-kungo-i were formally identified as a distinct locally indigenous...
variety as Maric. Other poorly attested interior languages which may have been Maric include Ngaygungu (Dixon 2002), Bindal (Bowern 2011), Barna (Bowern...
speakers at the time he was studying it. Languages neighbouring the many Dyirbal dialects include: Ngaygungu Mbabaram Muluriji Yidiny Warungu Warrgamay...
applying a female suffix It is not quite clear whether this was Warrongo or Ngaygungu territory Tsunoda 1974. Dixon 1994, p. 180. Tsunoda 2012, p. 38. Sutton...