The Jarrakan languages are a small family

Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...

 of Australian Aboriginal languages

Australian Aboriginal languages

The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...

 spoken in northern Australia. The name is derived from the word jarrak, which means "language" in Kija

Kija language

Kija is an Australian Aboriginal language today spoken by about 100 people, most of whom live in the region from Halls Creek to Kununurra in Western Australia....

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The three main Jarrakan languages are:

• Kija
  Kija language
  Kija is an Australian Aboriginal language today spoken by about 100 people, most of whom live in the region from Halls Creek to Kununurra in Western Australia....
  
  (about 100 speakers)
• Miriwoong
  Miriwoong language
  Miriwoong is an Australian Indigenous language which today has about 20 speakers, most of whom live in or near Kununurra in Western Australia....
  
  (about 20 speakers)
• Gajirrabeng
  Gajirrabeng language
  Gajirrabeng is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region, today known by only three or four fluent speakers....
  
  (three or four speakers)

These are divided into two groups: Kijic, consisting of only Kija, and Miriwoongic, consisting of Miriwoong and Gajirrabeng.

Doolboong

Doolboong language

Doolboong is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken by the Doolboong people on the coast of the Cambridge Gulf in the Northern Territory....

may also have been a Jarrakan language, but this uncertain as it is extinct

Language death

In linguistics, language death is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language variety is decreased, eventually resulting in no native and/or fluent speakers of the variety...

and essentially unattested.