Kayardild
Gayardild; Bentinck Islanders; Gaiardilt; Gajadild; Gajardild; Gajardilt; Gaja dilt; Gayadilt; Gayardilt; Gaya dilt; Kaiadil; Kaiadilt; Madunun; Maldanunda; Malununda; Malununde; Mardunung; Marlanunda; Gajadilt; Southern Tangkic; Yangkaal-Kayardild; South Wellesley; Guyadilt; Ngarrkuwa Kangk; Rarumbanda Kangk; Bandingkawanda Kangk; Bentinck Language;
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"There are only five full speakers left."
2007
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Australia: Northwestern Queensland, on Bentinck Island in the southeastern corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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"In 1981, about fifty speakers were reported. There has been a rapid shift to English by the speakers since they were taken from Bentinck Island and brought to Mornington Island Mission in 1940, with children prevented from seeing their parents and kept in dormitories."
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Mornington and Bentinck Islands, Australia
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Shifted to English. Only older adults.
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Ethnic population: 150 (2000 N. Evans)
2009
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Australia;
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Queensland, Australia
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"Evans (1987)... reports that the Kaiadilt...have no fluent speakers under 45 years of age. Younger speakers retain active command of a small range of vocabulary but speak Kaiadilt with varying degrees of fluency."
1991
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Australia
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"Varieties of English have taken over within 40 years of significant white contact. The variety of English will depend on the speaker's age, sex and background (in terms of education, work experience, etc.) as well as situation."
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- Further Report on the Kaiadilt People of Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, QueenslandTindale, Norman B. 1977. "Further Report On the Kaiadilt People of Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland." In Sunda and Sahul: prehistoric studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia, edited by Jim Allen. 247-273. London: Academic Press.
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- Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages DatabaseAUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au
- "Linguistic and Ethnographic documentation of Kayardild" HRELP AbstractRound, Erich. 2006. ""Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of Kayardild" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=88.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=88
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- "A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations" HRELP AbstractGoldstein, Louis. 2005. ""A First Kayardild Audiovisual Text Corpus, with Prosodic Annotations" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=76.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=76
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