Latji-Latji language

Ladji Ladji (Ledji-Ledji) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language once widely spoken in New South Wales and Victoria by the Latjilatji (or Ladji Ladji) people.

Ladji Ladji
RegionNew South Wales, Victoria
EthnicityLatjilatji
Native speakers
10 (2005)[1]
Pama–Nyungan
  • Kulinic
    • Wemba-Wemba[2]
      • Madhi–Ladji–Wadi
        • Ladji Ladji
Language codes
ISO 639-3llj
Glottologladj1234
AIATSIS[1]S23
ELPLadji Ladji

Ladji Ladji is part of the Kulin branch of the Pama–Nyungan family of languages, which were spoken by the majority of Australian Aborigines before Australia's colonisation by the British Empire.

The Ladji Ladji[3] lived on the Murray River in the Mildura area. White settlement of that area occurred in 1845-7.

References
  1. S23 Ladji Ladji at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
  3. Indigenous Heritage Murray Darling Association (2015).


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