Dhurga language
| Dhurga | |
|---|---|
| Region | New South Wales, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Dhurga (Yuin) |
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Native speakers
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Few surviving speakers (date missing) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | dhur1239 |
| AIATSIS | S53 |
Dhurga (Thurga) is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales Spoken around the Bega Valley (southern Yuin) area. The language itself is quite tone based. The language it self, does not have a word for thank you and as stated in an interview with Graham Moore a Yuin Elder that spoke the language stated the reason as "We didn't have a word for thank you as we were quite a giving people"
Dharamba and Walbanga may have been dialects.
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