Nhuwala language
| Nhuwala | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Western Australia |
| Region | Barrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast |
| Extinct | 10 speakers reported in 1981[1] |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nhf |
| Glottolog |
nhuw1239[2] |
| AIATSIS[3] |
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.[4]
References
- ↑ Nhuwala at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nhuwala". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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