Dadi Dadi
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A language of Australia
Alternate Names
Dadidadi, Dardi-Dardi, Dardidardi, Tatitati, Tharrthi-Tharrthi
User Population
No known L1 speakers (2016 census). The last fluent speakers probably died in the early 1900s.
Location
Victoria state: northwest; New South Wales state: southwest, Murray river area, north to Benanee.
Language Status
9 (Dormant).
Language Use
Shifted to English [eng].
Language Development
In 2015, Dr. Luise Hercus, a leading chronicler of endangered Australian Aboriginal languages, gathered Dadi Dadi and other indigenous groups together to hear recordings of their heritage languages with the goal of helping the groups ‘maintain and teach their languages to future generations’.