Wurrugu language

Wurrugu
Popham Bay
Region Northern Territory, Australia
Extinct Attested in the 19th century.
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wur
Glottolog wurr1238[1]
AIATSIS[2] N37

The Wurrugu language, also known as the Popham Bay language, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It is known from just a few 19th-century wordlists and one rememberer.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wurrugu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Wurrugu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


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