Dhudhuroa language

Dhudhuroa
Victorian Alpine
Region	North-eastern Victoria, Australia
Extinct	Early 20th century
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Gippsland Dhudhuroa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ddr
Glottolog	dhud1236[1]
AIATSIS[2]	S44

Dhudhuroa is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north-eastern Victoria. As it is no longer spoken, Dhudhuroa is primarily known today from written material collected by R. H. Mathews from Neddy Wheeler. It has gone by numerous names, including Dhudhuroa, the Victorian Alpine language, Dyinningmiddhang, Djilamatang, Theddora,^[3] Theddoramittung, Balangamida, and Tharamirttong. Yaitmathang (Jaitmathang), or Jandangara (Gundanora), was spoken in the same area, but was a dialect of Ngarigu.^[2]

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dhudhuroa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Dhudhuroa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, volume 75, page 324: It is obvious that the two, the Theddora and the Dhudhuroa, are the same.

• Blake, Barry J.; Julie Reid (2002). "The Dhudhuroa language of northeastern Victoria: a description based on historical sources". Aboriginal History 26: 177–210.
• Jacks, Timna (10 October 2015). "VCE Indigenous language students awaken ‘sleeping’ Dhudhuroa tongue". The Age. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
• Mathews, R. H. (1909). "The Dhudhuroa language of Victoria". American Anthropologist 11 (2): 278–284. doi:10.1525/aa.1909.11.2.02a00100.

External links

• Bibliography of Dhuduroa people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies