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Kuku-Yalanji

A language of Australia

ISO 639-3: gvn

Population	240 (1996 census), increasing.
Region	Queensland,Wujal-Wujal, Bloomfield River (Ayton), Daintree and Mossman, between Cooktown and Mossman.
Language map	Northern Australia
Alternate names	Guguyalanji, Koko-Yalanji, Kuku-Yalangi
Dialects	Kuku-Nyungkul, Kuku-Biraji.
Classification	Australian, Pama-Nyungan, Yalandyic
Language use	Vigorous. Traditional religion, oral and some written use in religious services. Oral tradition. Positive attitude. All also use English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 14%. 100 can read; 30 can write it. Limited oral use as a subject of study. Dictionary. NT: 1985.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Hunter-gatherers formerly, now laborers. Christian, traditional religion, syncretism.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

HARGRAVE, Susanne, author. 1982. A report on colour term research in five Aboriginal languages.

HERSHBERGER, Henry D., author. 1964. "A tentative description of the noun morphology of Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Henry D., author. 1964. "Case-marking affixes in Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Henry D., author. 1964. "Gugu-Yalanji noun phrases."

HERSHBERGER, Henry D.; HERSHBERGER, Ruth, compilers. 1982. Kuku-Yalanji dictionary.  

HERSHBERGER, Henry D.; PIKE, Eunice V., authors. 1970. "Stress as related to the grammar of Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Ruth, author. 1964. "A tentative grammatical statement of the simple clause in Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Ruth, author. 1964. "-ku ‘then’ and -da ‘now’ in Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Ruth, author. 1964. "Notes on Gugu-Yalanji verbs."

HERSHBERGER, Ruth, author. 1964. "Personal pronouns in Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Ruth, author. 1970. "Sentence types in Gugu-Yalanji."

HERSHBERGER, Ruth, author. 1979. Clause types in Gugu-Yalanji.

KERR, Harland B.; PITTMAN, Richard S., editors. 1964. Papers on the languages of the Australian Aborigines.

OATES, Lynette F., author. 1964. "Distribution of phonemes and syllables in Gugu-Yalanji."

OATES, Lynette F., author. 1966. "Assimilation and the Australian Aborigine."

OATES, Lynette F.; OATES, William J., authors. 1964. "[Gugu-Yalanji] Linguistic and anthropological data."

OATES, Lynette F.; OATES, William J., authors. 1964. "Gugu-Yalanji vocabulary."

OATES, Lynette F.; OATES, William J., authors. 1964. Gugu-Yalanji and Wik-Munkan language studies.

OATES, William J., author. 1967. "Syllable patterning and phonetically complex consonants in some Australian languages."

Vernacular Publications

Jilba dunganya. 1978.

Kaban bamanka 2. 1978.

Kaban bamanka. 1978.

Kaban Eskimo-warranka. 1978.

Kaban ngujuji. 1971.

Kubirriwarranka kuku. 1978.

Kuku-Yalanji primer 1, 2. 1966.

Kulur bikibiki karrkay. 1984.

Kulur nanny-goat gruff. 1985.

Mayi kaykayanga. 1974.

Vernacular literacy programme. n.d.

Vernacular literacy programme. n.d.

Wolf, nanny-goat kaykay-kaykay 7-bala. 1984.