lang_description: "Note on Australian languages with no known speakers: For some languages, we haven't been able to confirm speaker numbers. In other cases, there isn't anyone who has grown up speaking the language, but there are still people who identify with the language, and who are working to revitalize their languages. We've chosen to include these languages in the Catalogue for this reason.",
classification: "Unclassified; Tangkic?",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "Removed 6/19/16 because likely long extinct (BH)",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:15694,
code_id:6701,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:89360,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:16352,
code_id:6701,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: "",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89000,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30732,
code_id:6701,
speaker_number: "None",
speaker_number_text: "0",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""The language has long been extinct, per McKnight -- 'The Minkin whose tribal territory included Burketown have all but vanished. Drugs, alcohol, veneral diseases, tuberculois, whooping cough, and other sicknesses all took their toll' (2004: 7). Sharp explains -- 'No living Minkin could be found in the Burketown area and the tribe is apparently extinct...' (1939)."",