Wathawurrung language

Wathawurrung
Wathaurong
Region Victoria
Ethnicity Wathaurong people
Extinct (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wth
Glottolog wath1238[1]
AIATSIS[2] S29

The five Kulin nations. Wathawurrung ('Wathaurong') is in on the coast in green.

Wathawurrung (Wathaurong, Wada wurrung; obsolete Barrabool) is the extinct Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria. It was spoken by 15 clans south of the Werribee River and the Bellarine Peninsula to Streatham.

References

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


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