Daungwurrung language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daungwurrung
Taungurung
Region Victoria
Ethnicity Taungurong people
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dgw
AIATSIS[2] S37
The five Kulin nations. Daungwurrung ('Taungurong') is in the northeast in green.

Daungwurrung (Taungurong, Dhagung-wurrung) is the extinct Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Taungurong people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria. Daungwurrung was spoken north of the Great Dividing Range in the Goulburn River Valley around Mansfield, Benalla and Heathcote.

References

  1. R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
  2. Daungwurrung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.