Kulinic languages

Kulinic
Kulin–Bunganditj
Geographic
distribution:
Australia
Linguistic classification:

Pama–Nyungan

  • Southeastern
    • Victorian
      • Kulin–Bunganditj
        • Kulinic
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: kuli1256[1]

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Kulinic languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). Along the coast, the three groups are (west to east) Drual, Kolakngat, Kulin.

The Kulinic languages form a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are:

Warrnambool is Kulinic[2] and may be Drual, but is too poorly attested to be certain.[3] Gadubanud was a dialect of either Warrnambool or Kolakngat.[4] Several poorly attested interior Kulinic languages, such as Wemba-Wemba, are listed in the Kulin article.

The three branches of Kulinic are not close; Dixon treats them as three separate families.

Bibliography

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kulin–Bunganditj". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  3. Barry Blake (2003) The Bunganditj (Buwandik) language of the Mount Gambier Region, p 17 ff.
  4. Gadubanud at AIATSIS


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