Darkinjung language

Darkinjung
Hawkesbury–MacDonald River
Native toAustralia
RegionNew South Wales
EthnicityDarkinjung, Darkinung
Eraattested 1903
RevivalA small number of second-language users in revival program
Dialects
  • Darrkinyung
  • Hawkesbury River–Broken Bay?
Language codes
ISO 639-3xda
Glottologhawk1239
AIATSISS65
ELPDarkinyung
Traditional lands of Aboriginal Australian tribes around Sydney; Darkinjung in   brown

Darkinjung (Darrkinyung; many other spellings; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Darkinjung people. While no audio recordings of the language survive, several researchers have compiled wordlists and grammatical descriptions. It has been classified as a language no longer fully spoken and it can be classified as needing a language renewal program. It was spoken adjacent to Dharuk, Wiradhuri, Gamilaraay, and Awabakal. The Darkinjung tribe occupied a small part of southeastern Australia inside what is now the New South Wales area. They likely inhabited a considerable tract of land within Hunter, Northumberland, and Cook counties.