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ALSO KNOWN AS		Garama, Garrama, Murrinh-Patha, Murinbada, Murinbata, Murinypata, Murinjpata, Murinjbada, Marri-wutha, Garramung, Murriny Patha, Karama, Karaman, Murinkura, Nagor, Nangu, Mariwada, Mariwuda, Murrinpatha
CLASSIFICATION		Southern Daly
ORTHOGRAPHY		Latin
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mwf
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Murrinh-kura Murrinh-patha Murrinh-rdiminin
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Information from: “Community, identity, wellbeing: The report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey” . Doug Marmion and Kazuko Obata and Jakelin Troy (2014)

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-9,999
Native speakers worldwide
CHILDREN
>1500
YOUNG ADULTS
>1000
OLDER ADULTS
>500
ELDERS
>100
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The respondent reported that the number of people who identify with Murrinh-Patha is over 1000; it is
likely that all of these people have some language knowledge, many as full speakers."

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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"Murrinh-patha is the lingua franca of the community so it is a strong language"

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"Several respondents to the Language Attitude Survey listed Murrinh-Patha as one of the traditional languages with which they identify. One respondent mentioned that they do not speak their parents’ languages, but rather Murrinh-Patha because it is the language of the place in which they grew up; that is, Port Keats/Wadeye."

PLACES: Wadeye, Northern Territory, Australia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "Murrinh-Patha is a language from Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory. Murrinh-Patha is the common language of the region and is gaining speakers."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,150
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
900
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,430
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census.

DATE OF INFO: 1996

PLACES: Australia;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1,000
Native speakers worldwide

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "In Wadeye (formerly Port Keats), people use the local Murrinh-Patha langauge for prayer both at mass - where 'Yile dingarrayepup kathu' is the local equivalent of 'Lord hear our prayer' - and more prviately (Brother Vince Roche, personal communication)."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,830
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2006

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"Children learn it as L1 (2007)." Speaker number is increasing.

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

Used in education

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1982–1990."

Scripts (Writing system)

Latin

PLACES: Australia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Northern Territory, Port Keats area, Wadeye"

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
900
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1990

PLACES: Northern Territory, Australia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1500
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Australia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: West coast of the Northern Territory

0855752416			1993	New Uses for Old Languages	Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia	207-223		Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop		Aboriginal Studies Press			Canberra	Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies	15		Paul Black	Paul Black. 1993. "New Uses For Old Languages." In Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia, edited by Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop. 207-223. Aboriginal Studies Press.									"In Wadeye (formerly Port Keats), people use the local Murrinh-Patha langauge for prayer both at mass - where 'Yile dingarrayepup kathu' is the local equivalent of 'Lord hear our prayer' - and more prviately (Brother Vince Roche, personal communication)."
			2007	Australasia and the Pacific	Atlas of the World's Languages	97-126		R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley		Routledge					4		Darrell Tryon	Tryon, Darrell. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley. 97-126. Routledge.				900	1990	100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)				M. Paul Lewis		SIL International			Dallas, TX			http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub			1,430	1996	100-999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census.				Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Australia;
			2011	How many languages were spoken in Australia?			Also includes subsequent additions by CB directly into ElCat									http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx	Claire Bowern	Claire Bowern. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?" Online: http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx.																		-14.64409151,129.7406449
				Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database						AIATSIS			Canberra			http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub			1,150		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
			2007	Northern and Central Australia Language Hotspot					Web page					Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages		http://www.livingtongues.org/hotspots/hotspot.australia.html	Gregory Anderson and K. David Harrison	Anderson, Gregory and K. David Harrison. 2007. "Northern and Central Australia Language Hotspot." Online: http://www.livingtongues.org/hotspots/hotspot.australia.html.				~1,000		100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		3	2011	Transitivity in Murrinh-Patha		702-734				John Benjamins	Studies in Language	35	Amsterdam	University of Melbourne			Rachel Nordlinger	Rachel Nordlinger. 2011. "Transitivity in Murrinh-Patha." In Studies in Language, 35: 702-734. John Benjamins.																Northern Territory, Australia
978192210224			2014	Community, identity, wellbeing: The report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey									Canberra, Australia	Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)			Doug Marmion and Kazuko Obata and Jakelin Troy	Doug Marmion, Kazuko Obata and Jakelin Troy. 2014. "Community, Identity, Wellbeing: the Report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey." Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.		>500	>1000			1000-9999	"The respondent reported that the number of people who identify with Murrinh-Patha is over 1000; it is likely that all of these people have some language knowledge, many as full speakers."	>100	"Several respondents to the Language Attitude Survey listed Murrinh-Patha as one of the traditional languages with which they identify. One respondent mentioned that they do not speak their parents’ languages, but rather Murrinh-Patha because it is the language of the place in which they grew up; that is, Port Keats/Wadeye."		Threatened (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12	"Murrinh-patha is the lingua franca of the community so it is a strong language"	10	"Murrinh-Patha is a language from Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory. Murrinh-Patha is the common language of the region and is gaining speakers."	Wadeye, Northern Territory, Australia		-14.236681,129.521756
0855752416			1993	Classifying the World in an Aboriginal Language	Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia	107-122		Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop		Aboriginal Studies Press			Canberra	Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies	8		Michae Walsh	Michae Walsh. 1993. "Classifying the World in An Aboriginal Language." In Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia, edited by Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop. 107-122. Aboriginal Studies Press.				~1500		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Australia	West coast of the Northern Territory
	17th		2013	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)				Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig		Dallas, Texas: SIL International						http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.				1,830	2006	1000-9999			"Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1982–1990."	Used in education	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		"Children learn it as L1 (2007)." Speaker number is increasing.			Australia	"Northern Territory, Port Keats area, Wadeye"
				World Oral Literature Project												http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.				900		100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Murrinh-patha

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000-9,999

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,150

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

900

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,430

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~1,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,830

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

900

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~1500

Discussion

Murrinh-patha

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000-9,999

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,150

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

900

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,430

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~1,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,830

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

900

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~1500

Discussion

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