Gurindji Kriol is a mixed language spoken by Gurindji people in the Kalkaringi and Daguragu communities of the Victoria River District, Northern Territory, Australia, which emerged in the 1970s from extensive code-switching between the Gurindji language and Kriol following the establishment of cattle stations on Gurindji land and the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off. It shows a distinctive verb-noun structural split, drawing its noun phrase structure and case-marking from Gurindji while taking its tense-aspect-mood auxiliaries from Kriol, a pattern that places it among a small class of verb-noun mixed languages alongside Michif and Light Warlpiri. The 2021 census recorded only 25 native speakers, and maintaining Gurindji elements within the mixed language has become bound up with assertions of Gurindji ancestral identity.
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