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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

 

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