ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Australia · ISO 639-3 lbz · Glottocode lard1243

Lardil

Lardil extends the Tangkic languages with a nearly extinct Australian profile assigned a likely Latin script.

Language family
Tangkic
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
nearly extinct
Macroarea
Australia
Source country codes
AU
Reference point
-16.562, 139.434

Open research question

How do scholarly documentation, local orthography and present community language maintenance relate to one another?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.