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.[3]
Nhuwala | |
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Native to | Western Australia |
Region | Barrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast |
Extinct | Late 1990s[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nhf |
Glottolog | nhuw1239 |
AIATSIS[2] | W30 |
ELP | Nhuwala |
References
edit- ^ Nhuwala at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ W30 Nhuwala at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method