ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Australia · ISO 639-3 tcs · Glottocode torr1261

Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole

Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole adds a threatened Australian contact language classified as Indo-European and written in Latin script.

Language family
Indo-European
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
Australia
Source country codes
AU
Reference point
-11.066, 142.692

Open research question

Which regional labels, varieties and multilingual domains of use need separate evidence within the creole continuum?

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.