Dhurga language

The Dhurga language, also written Thurga, is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales. The language is tonal, and spoken in the Nowra-Jervis Bay area southwards to Narooma, and possibly as far south as Wallaga Lake.[3]

Dhurga
RegionNew South Wales, Australia
EthnicityDhurga (Yuin), Wandandian, ?Walbanga
Native speakers
Few surviving speakers
Dialects
  • Tharumba
Language codes
ISO 639-3dhu
Glottologdhur1239
AIATSIS[1]S53
ELPDhurga[2]

In an interview with Graham Moore, a Yuin elder who spoke the language, Moore said, "We didn't have a word for thank you as we were quite a giving people."[4]

Dharamba and Walbanga may have been dialects.

References

  1. S53 Dhurga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Dhurga.
  3. AIATSIS
  4. Interview with Graham Moore (Yuin Elder)


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