Tjupany
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A language of Australia
Alternate Names
Tjupan
User Population
6 (2018 Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre). Ethnic population: 250 (2018 Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre).
Location
Western Australia: Northwest Goldfields around the area of Barwidgee Station through to Leinster, Wiluna and west to Sandstone.
Language Status
8b (Nearly extinct).
Language Use
Elderly only. Shifted to English [eng].
Language Development
Funding was received for the year 2011 to 2012 to begin work on the recording, analysis and preservation of the language through creation of recordings, a dictionary and a sketch grammar (2018 J. Murdoch).