Wirangu language
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| Wirangu | ||
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| Spoken in: | Australia | |
| Region: | West coast of South Australia | |
| Total speakers: | < 10 | |
| Language family: | Australian Pama-Nyungan Thura-Yura[1] Wirangu |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | wiw
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The Wirangu language is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Wirangu people, living on the west coast of South Australia across a region encompassing modern Ceduna and Streaky Bay, stretching west approximately to the Head of Bight and east to Lake Gairdner.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hercus, pp. 9-10; note that Wirangu is not a Wati language as formerly reported in the Ethnologue, among other sources.
[edit] Further reading
Hercus, L.A. (1999). "A grammar of the Wirangu language from the west coast of South Australia". Pacific Linguistics Series C (vol. 150). ISBN 0-85883-505-3, ISSN 0078-7558.
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