Tagalaka language

Australian Aboriginal language

Takalak
RegionQueensland
EthnicityTagalag
Extinct(date missing)
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
  • Paman
    • Thaypan?
      • Takalak
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tgz
Glottologtaga1279
AIATSIS[1]Y125
ELPTagalaka

Takalak (Tagalaka, Dagalag) is a poorly attested, extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland.

Country

The Tagalaka inhabited the area, estimated at 3,900 square miles (10,000 km2), in the middle of the Gilbert River, north nearly to the Einasleigh River, south to the Gregory Range, east to Georgetown and Forsayth and west to near Croydon.[2]

References

  1. ^ Y125 Takalak at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Tindale 1974, p. 185.

Works cited

  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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