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Djukun language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3913785 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jukun or Djugun 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. It is an Eastern Nyulnyulan language, closely related to Yawuru.

Revitalization

A book titled 50 Words in Djukun: A Language Of The West Kimberley was published in 2025, facilitating the revitalization of the Djukun language.

Notes

References

Nekes, H.; Worms, E. A. (1953). Australian Languages. Fribourg: Anthropos Institut.

Stokes, B; McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages". In N. Evans (ed.).

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This entry incorporates text from “Djukun language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.