Laragiya

Laragiya, also called Gulumirrgin, is the language of the Larrakia people, the Saltwater People of the harbour country around present-day Darwin on the north coast of the Northern Territory. When the first British colony in Australia was founded in 1788, Larrakia territory stretched south from the harbour toward Coolalinga, bordered by the Wulna and Warrai.

The Larrakia traded and intermarried with the Tiwi, Wadjiginy and Djerimanga, sharing ceremonies and songlines. Long treated as a language isolate, Laragiya has been grouped with Limilngan and Wulna in the proposed Darwin Region family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages.