The Wurrugu language, or Wurango, also known as the Popham Bay language, is an extinct

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 ...

. It is known from just a few 19th-century wordlists and one

rememberer Within the linguistic study of endangered languages, sociolinguists distinguish between different speaker types based on the type of competence they have acquired of the endangered language. Often when a community is gradually shifting away from a ...

References

*Evans, N. (1996). First and last notes on Wurrugu. University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, 91–98. Extinct languages of the Northern Territory Languages attested from the 19th century Marrku–Wurrugu languages {{Ia-lang-stub