Laragia

Laragia is a language isolate spoken in Australia, by about 23 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

Laragia · 12.4°S 130.9°E

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

The Laragiya language, also spelt Larrakia (deriving from Larrakia people), and also known as Gulumirrgin, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by just six people near the city of Darwin in northern Australia as of 1983. Only 41 people claimed to know the Laragiya language in 2021.

Laragiya was once considered a language isolate, but Mark Harvey has made a case for it being part of a family of Darwin Region languages.

Linguist Arthur Capell wrote,

From Wikipedia · Laragiya language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Laragia

Meaning	Word	Romanization
name	ya*
eye	dam3*
ear	banatda*
nose	gwiyin*
tooth	dinbergi*
tongue	gweymala*
hand	gwoyar*
blood	damiTa*
bone	muya*
skin	yal*
knee	y3b3r*
breast	gweyminkapbu*
liver	mamarni*
water	gwarawa
fire	guyu*
sun	deli*
star	mamili*
stone	belpbe*
mountain	gweymara*
tree	matb3r*
leaf	gwoyur*
night	damuN*
dog	biliNga*
louse	dam3*
one	galaguk*
two	galiTilik*
I	Nana*
you	iTana*
we	NaraNara*
path	gweybar*