Puneet Varma (Editor)

Djadjawurrung language

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Region
  
Victoria

Extinct
  
(date missing)

Glottolog
  
None

Ethnicity
  
Dja Dja Wurrung people

ISO 639-3
  
dja

Djadjawurrung language

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Kulinic Kulin Wemba-Wemba Djadjawurrung

Djadjawurrung (Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is one of the extinct Indigenous Australian languages spoken by the Jaara a.k.a. Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria. Djadjawurrung was spoken by 16 clans around Murchison, the central highlands region, east to Kyneton, west to the Pyrenees, north to Boort and south to the Great Dividing Range.

Sounds

Vowels noted are /i e a u/. They might be phonetically noted as /i ɛ-e a ʊ-u/.

References

Djadjawurrung language Wikipedia