Kungkari (also ''Gunggari'', ''Koonkerri'', ''Kuungkari'') is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

and unclassified

Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

. The Kungkari language region included the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.

Classification

Geographically it lay near the Barcoo River between the

Karnic The Karnic languages are a group of languages of the Pama–Nyungan family. According to Dixon (2002), these are three separate families, but Bowern (2001) establishes regular paradigmatic connections among many of the languages, demonstrating ...

and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification. Bowern (2001) mentions Kungkari as a possible Karnic language. Wafer and Lissarrague (2008) report that a description of Kungkari by Breen (1990) is of Kungkari, not the similarly-named Gunggari, which was Maric.

References

Unclassified languages of Australia Karnic languages Extinct languages of Queensland {{ia-lang-stub