Concord formation "Laragia is a member of the multiple-classifying language group, but has the somewhat unusual practice of combining prefixes and suffixes in the formation of the concord. The Laragia
concord is shown by a discontinuous
morpheme - at least in many cases, but not in the verb - partly prefixal and partly suffixal. "It is what
Zellig Harris called a 'broken sequence'. It may be mentioned in passing that the majority of the multiple-classifying languages in North Australia used prefixal forms to mark the classes, but a few, such as
Worora and
Unggumi in the Northern Kimberley Division of Western Australia, have vestigial suffixes, while a few on the
Barkly Tablelands in the eastern part of the
Northern Territory use only suffixes. These phenomena suggest that the languages originally had, as Laragia still does, markers at each end of the word." Larrakia Elder Robert Mills of Batji Tours is able to name plants and animals. Lorraine Williams, a Larrakia woman and Research Associate with the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems published online, "For a lot of my life I have been involved in and have given evidence as a claimant in the Kenbi Land Claim and the Darwin Native Title proceedings. I am currently working on Larrakia Cultural Heritage Management focusing on Larrakia archaeological sites in the Darwin region and I have a keen interest in all things Larrakia. In years gone by I have worked on Larrakia ethnobiology with the view to keeping Larrakia language and culture strong. I am a member of the Batcho family of the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation". The Larrakia have in the past referred to themselves as
Gulumerrgin. Gulumerrgin is one of the names for the language spoken by the Larrakia. ==Vocabulary==