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Garlali (Galali, Gaḷali, Kalali) or Kullili (Kullilla) is a pair of ethnically related Australian Aboriginal languages. The
Kullili people were an important group who occupied an area of Australia from about Thargomindah in South West Queensland,
southward to the Currawinya Lakes, and west to Bulloo Lakes and north to Norley Station. The name covers two varieties. Waŋkumara
Galali (Wilson River Galali) is very close to the Karnic languages Waŋkumara and Bundamara, while the Bulloo River Galali
studied by Gavin Breen (from a speaker named Charlie Phillips) is one of the transitional 'Karna–Mari fringe' languages. The
former may have originated in the latter, but been subject language shift. The descendents of the Kullili speakers mostly
live in Brisbane, Cherbourg (the old Aboriginal Mission), and small New South Wales and Queensland towns such as Bourke, Thargomindah,
Cunnamulla, and Charleville. Galali is one of the dialects of what linguist Gaven Breen has called the ‘Wilson River Language’.
Galali has also been referred to as the ‘Bulloo River Language’, and strong similarities occur with ‘Wankumara’, ‘Thiraila’,
‘Mambangura’, and ‘Bunthamara’. Breen pointed out that some groups in southwest Queensland had abandoned their original languages
(but not their names) and adopted the ‘Wilson River Language’ in the early days of Australian settlement when people moved
from Thargomindah to Nockatunga (near the modern town of Noccundra). The informant Charlie Phillips aged 74 years, born at
Backwood Station south of Hungerford in southwest Queensland, spoke the language fluently and confidently despite having not
used the language conversationally for 40 years. |
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Language type : Extinct
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