Kaurna ( or ) is a
Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the
Kaurna peoples of the
Adelaide Plains of
South Australia. The people of the Adelaide plains are known as the Kaurna people in contemporary times, but the Kaurna nation is made up of various tribal clan groups, each with their own
parnkarra district of land, each having had their own dialectal form of language. These dialects were historically spoken in the area of the
Adelaide Plains bounded by
Crystal Brook and
Clare in the north,
Cape Jervis in the south, and just over the mount lofty ranges. It ceased to be spoken on an everyday basis in the 19th century, but, in a process that began in the 1990s, is being reclaimed and re-introduced.