Nhuwala language

Nhuwala
Native to Western Australia
Region Barrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast
Extinct 10 speakers reported in 1981[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nhf
Glottolog nhuw1239[2]
AIATSIS[3] W30

Nhuwala is a possibly extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. Dench (1995) believed there was insufficient data to enable it to be confidently classified, but Bowern & Koch (2004) include it among the Ngayarda languages without proviso.[4]

References

  1. Nhuwala at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nhuwala". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nhuwala at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method


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