The Dieri is an Indigenous Australian group and language from the South Australian desert -- specifically Cooper and Leigh Creek, Lake Howitt, and Lake Hope, Lake Gregory and Clayton River and low country north of Mount Freeling.
Alternate names
Diari
Diyeri
Dieyerie
Deerie
Dayerrie
Dthee-eri
Kunari (Cooper Creek)
Koonarie
Wongkadieri (by
Arabana)
Tiari (by south.
Aranda)
Urrominna
Kujani
Tirari
Diyari
Genetic classification of the language
Australian, Pama-Nyungan, Karnic, Karna.
Related to Garuwali, Marrula, Midhaga, Yarluyandi, all of which may be extinct.
ISO/DIS: 639-3: dif
References
Trefry, David. 1970.
The phonological word in Dieri In D. C. Laycock (ed.), Linguistic trends in Australia , 65-73. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 23. Canberra: Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies.
Australian Aboriginal languages | Indigenous peoples of Australia