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Ngadjuri language

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Ngadjuri
Native toAustralia
RegionSouth Australia
EthnicityNgadjuri people
Extinctby 1975[1]
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3jui
Glottologngad1257
AIATSIS[1]L5

Ngadjuri is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken by the Ngadjuri people of South Australia, whose traditional lands covered roughly 30,000 square kilometres (11,500 sq mi), embracing Angaston and Freeling in the south and running northwards to Clare, Crystal Brook, Gladstone up to Carrieton and Orroroo in the Flinders Ranges.

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  1. ^ a b L5 Ngadjuri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies