Kunwinjku dialect

Kunwinjku is a dialect of Bininj Kunwok, an Australian Aboriginal language.^[3] The Aboriginal people who speak Kunwinjku are the Bininj people, who live primarily in western Arnhem Land. As Kunwinjku is the most widely spoken dialect of Bininj Kunwok, 'Kunwinjku' is sometimes used to refer to Bininj Kunwok as a whole.^[4] Kunwinjku is spoken primarily in the west of the Bininj Kunwok speaking areas, including the town of Gunbalanya, as well as outstations such as Mamardawerre, Kumarrirnbang, Kudjekbinj and Manmoyi.^[3]

Kunwinjku
Gunwinggu
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Bininj (Kunwinjku etc.)
Native speakers	1,494 (2021 census)[1]
Language family	Arnhem Gunwinyguan Gunwinggic Bininj Kunwok Kunwinjku
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	guma1252
AIATSIS[2]	N65 Kunwinjku

References

1. "SBS Australian Census Explorer". Retrieved 12 October 2022.
2. N65 Kunwinjku at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. "Dialects". Bininj Kunwok: Kunwok dja mankarre kadberre—our language, our culture. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
4. "N186: BININJ GUN-WOK / BININJ KUNWOK". AIATSIS Collection: AUSTLANG. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.

Further reading

• Carroll, P.J. (1976). Kunwinjku: a language of Western Arnhem Land (MA thesis). Australian National University: Canberra. hdl:1885/132709.
• Etherington, S.; Etherington, N. (1996). Kunwinjku Kunwok: a short introduction to Kunwinjku language and society (2nd ed.). Kunwinjku Language Centre.
• Evans, Nicholas (2003). Bininj Gun-wok: a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. Pacific Linguistics 541. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/53188., 2 volumes
• Oates, Lyn F. (1964), A tentative description of the Gunwinggu language (of western Arnhem Land), Sydney: Oceania Linguistic Monographs

External links

• Bininj Kunwok online dictionary
• "Kured [home page]". Bininj Kunwok. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre.
• Kunwok