Gippsland languages

Gippsland
Geographic
distribution:		 Gippsland, New South Wales
Linguistic classification:

Pama–Nyungan

  • Southeastern
    • Victorian
      • Eastern Victoria
        • Gippsland
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: None
gana1268  (Ganai)[1]
dhud1237  (Dhudhuroa–Pallanganmiddang)[2]

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Gippsland languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). The section on the coast is Gaanay.

The Gippsland languages are a family of Pama–Nyungan languages of Australia.[3] They are spoken in the Gippsland region, the southernmost part of mainland Australia, on the Bass Strait. There are three rather distant branches; these often considered single languages, though the dialects of Gaanay are sometimes counted separately:

All are now extinct. The Gippsland languages, especially Gaanay, have phonotactics that are unusual for mainland Australian languages, but characteristic of Tasmanian languages.

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ganai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dhudhuroa–Pallanganmiddang". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)