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ALSO KNOWN AS		Nambulatji , Panara, Pardoo, Peedona, Peedong, Pidung, Pidunga, Wanaeka, Wangatjunga, Wangatunga, Wangkadjungga, Wangkatjunga, Wangkatunga, Wangu, Wankutjunga, Bedengo, Bidong, Bidungo, Boonara, Bunara, Gogada, Gogadja, Gogoda, Gugada, Gugadja, Gugudja, Ilbaridja, Julbaritja, Julbre, Kokatja, Kukaja, Ku-kuruba, Manggai, Nambulatji, Kukacha, Luritja, Luritcha, Loritja, Loritcha, Lurritji, Aluridja, Loorudgie, Loorudgee, Juluridja, Maduntara, Maiulatara, Jumu
CLASSIFICATION		Pama-Nyungan, Wati
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kux
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Information from: “Central Australian Endangered Languages: So what?” (78-86) . Josephine Caffery (2010)

Vulnerable

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

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"Central Australia is also home to 40 per cent of Australia’s ‘strong’ Indigenous languages... These languages, taught to children as their first language and spoken across all generations [include] Kukatja"

PLACES: Australia

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1983

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "[Speakers] are bilingual in the large languages Pintupi-Luritja, Ngaanyatjarra, Martu Wangka or Walmajarri, which put pressure on it."
More on Orthography: "There is no literacy in it"

PLACES: Australia: Northwestern Western Australia, south of Hall's Creek, at Balgo, Lake Gregory and the area to the east.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
580
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;

Threatened

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
447
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2006

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1983

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Oates (1975) [reports] 300 speakers at Balgo Hills mission, Billiluna, Stuart Creek and Papunya."

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: Balgo Adult Education Centre
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "A bilingual programme is currently being run in the school at Balgo."
More on Orthography: "A system has been established and used in the Luurnpa Catholic school. It is similar to the system in use for Pintupi, and the South Kimberley system except that tj is used instead of j."

PLACES: Australia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "[Spoken at] delta of Sturt Creek in Gregory Salt Sea and country to the east."

				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.		300	1983	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	580	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.																	-20.51538798,128.041832
					Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database					AIATSIS			Canberra		http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub	447	2006	100-999						Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
				1996	Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region					Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University					http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/WA/contents.htm	Nicholas Thieberger	Thieberger, Nicholas. 1996. Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/WA/contents.htm. (12 August, 2011.)	ll_pub	300		100-999	"Oates (1975) [reports] 300 speakers at Balgo Hills mission, Billiluna, Stuart Creek and Papunya."		"A bilingual programme is currently being run in the school at Balgo."	Balgo Adult Education Centre		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					"[Spoken at] delta of Sturt Creek in Gregory Salt Sea and country to the east."	Australia	-20.242549,127.534736
		3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger					UNESCO Publishing			Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	1,000		1000-9999						Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
					World Oral Literature Project										http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		300		100-999						Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
			1	2010	Central Australian Endangered Languages: So what?		78-86				Dialogue	29				Josephine Caffery	Caffery, Josephine. 2010. "Central Australian Endangered Languages: So What?" In Dialogue, 29: 78-86.		1,000		1000-9999						Vulnerable (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	10	"Central Australia is also home to 40 per cent of Australia’s ‘strong’ Indigenous languages... These languages, taught to children as their first language and spoken across all generations [include] Kukatja"	13	10		Australia
070071197X	3	1		2007	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages					Routledge			Abingdon			Christopher Moseley	Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub	300	1983	100-999		Pintupi-Luritja, Ngaanyatjarra, Martu Wangka, Walmajarri	"[Speakers] are bilingual in the large languages Pintupi-Luritja, Ngaanyatjarra, Martu Wangka or Walmajarri, which put pressure on it."		All	Threatened (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11		13	12		Australia: Northwestern Western Australia, south of Hall's Creek, at Balgo, Lake Gregory and the area to the east.

Kukatja

Language metadata

Language information by source

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

580

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

447

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Discussion

Kukatja

Language metadata

Language information by source

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

580

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

447

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

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