Wunambal language

Wunambal
Region	Western Australia
Native speakers	maybe 20 (2005) to 28 (2006 census)[1]
Language family	Worrorran Wunambal
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: wub – Wunambal (Yeidji, Yiiji) gma – Gamberre (Gaambera) gww – Kwini (Gunin) vmi – Miwa wil – Wilawila (unconfirmed)
Glottolog	nort2751[2]
AIATSIS[1]	K22 Wunambal, K32 Yiiji, K39 Gambera, K36 Gunin, K44 Miwa, K35 Wilawila

Wunambal, or Northern Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.

Classification

Wunambal is grouped with Worrorra and Ungarinjin in the Wororan family.

Wunambal has several dialects, some of which may sometimes be treated as separate languages:^[3]

• Wunambal proper (5 speakers in 2005)
• Gamberre (5 speakers in 2005)
• Kwini (Gunin) (1 speaker in 2005)
• Miwa (Bagu) (extinct)
• Yiidji (Forrest River) (maybe 10 speakers in 2005)
• ? Wilawila (extinct)
• ? Ginan (extinct)

Bowern (2012) lists three Northern Worrorran languages: Wunambal proper, Gamberre, and Gunin.

References

1. Wunambal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Northern Worrorran". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xli.

• McGregor, W (1993). Gunin/Kwini. Munich: Lincom Europa.