Nari-Nari dialect
Extinct dialect of Wemba-Wemba
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Nari Nari is an extinct Indigenous Australian dialect of Wemba Wemba[4] once spoken in New South Wales. The last person who could speak Nari Nari was Angus Myers, a Jitajita man.[1] It was last recorded in 1967, but date of extinction is unknown.
Revival
As of 2020[update], the Nari Nari dialect[5] is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages—those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".[6]
