Jukun language

Jukun language

Infobox Language
name=Jukun
region=Western Australia
speakers=No fluent speakers.
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Nyulnyulan
fam2=Western
fam3=Nyulnyulic
script=Latin alphabet
iso2=aus
iso3=dyd

Jukun is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia. There are no longer any fluent speakers of Jukun, but some people may remember it to some degree.

References

*cite book |last=Nekes |first=H. |coauthors=Worms, E. A. |year=1953 |title=Australian Languages |location=Fribourg |publisher=Anthropos Institut
*cite book |last=Stokes |first=B |coauthors=McGregor, W. B. |year=2003 |chapter=Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages |editor=N. Evans |title=he Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent’s Most Linguistically Complex Region |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |pages=29–74


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