Wunambal | |
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Spoken in | Western Australia |
Native speakers | 20 (1990) |
Language family |
Wororan
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Writing system | Latin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | variously: wub – Wunambal wil – Wilawila gma – Gamberre gww – Kwini vmi – Miwa |
Wunambal is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.
Wunambal is usually grouped with Worrorra and Ungarinjin in the Wororan family. R. M. W. Dixon (2002), however, regards Wororan as simply an areal group. Recent work by Rumsey and McGregor (2009), however, demonstrates the cohesiveness of the family and its reconstructibility.
Wunambal has several dialects, some of which may sometimes be treated as separate languages: