Nhuwala language
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| Nhuwala | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Western Australia |
| Region | Barrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast |
Native speakers | unknown (10 cited 1981)[1] |
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Pama–Nyungan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nhf |
| AIATSIS[2] | W30 |
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]
References
- ↑ Nhuwala reference at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ↑ 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
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