Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English

Language; Endangered languages

Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English refers to the pidginised varieties of English spoken by Australian Aborigines until about the early 1950s for communication with Europeans and other immigrant ...

Kabi

Language; Endangered languages

The Kabi (or Kabi Kabi or Gubbi Gubbi) people are an Aboriginal Goori people of Australia, and corresponding language group of the South East Queensland coast, stretching from Brisbane up to ...

Gajirrabeng

Language; Endangered languages

Gajirrabeng is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region, today known by only three or four fluent speakers. The nearby Gurindji language is known to have borrowed from Gajirrabeng.

Wunambal

Language; Endangered languages

Wunambal is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia. Wunambal has several dialects, some of which may sometimes be treated as separate languages..

Tehuelche

Language; Endangered languages

Tehuelche (Aoniken, Inaquen, Gunua-Kena, Gununa-Kena) is a nearly extinct Chon language spoken by four people in Patagonia out of an ethnic group of 200. They were originally nomadic hunters from ...

Kallawaya

Language; Endangered languages

Kallawaya, also Callahuaya or Callawalla is an endangered, secret, mixed language in Bolivia. It is spoken by the Kallawaya people, a group of traditional itinerant healers in the Andes in their ...

Wichi is the most widely spoken language of the Matacoan language family. The total number of speakers can only be estimated; no reliable figures exist. The Wichí language is predominantly suffixing ...