Djabugay language - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Djabugay is a nearly extinct

Language death

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Australian Aboriginal language once spoken by Djabugay people.

Names

Names for this language and/or some of its dialects include:

Djabugay, Djabugai, Dyaabugay, Dyabugay, Tjapukai
Tjabakai-Thandji, Tjabogaijanji; Djabungandji, Tjapunkandji
Tjunbundji; Koko-Tjumbundji
Tjankun
Tjankir
Kokonyungalo, Kikonjunkulu
Bulum-Bulum
Check-Cull
Chewlie
Hileman
Kodgotto
Ngarlkadjie
Orlow

Vocabulary

Some words from the Djabugay language, as spelt and written by Djabugay authors include:

Bulurru: elsewhere known as Dreaming
Dreamtime
In the animist framework of Australian Aboriginal mythology, The Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral Totemic Spirit Beings formed The Creation.-The Dreaming of the Aboriginal times:...

, the source of life.

Gurrabana: where people and everything in Djabugay society and life is divided between wet and dry, this is the wet season side.

Gurraminya: where people and everything in Djabugay society and life is divided between wet and dry, this is the dry season side.

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