Extinct (date missing) | Dialects Ngunawal
Gundungurra | |
Region New South Wales & ACT, Australia Ethnicity Ngunnawal people, Gandangara people Language family Pama–Nyungan
Yuin–Kuric
Yuin
Ngunnawal ISO 639-3 Either:
xul – Ngunawal
xrd – Gundungurra | ||
Ngunnawal or Gundungurra is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngunnawal and Gandangara peoples. There are contradictory claims as to whether they are one language or two. The name Burragorang is applied to either.
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Classification
Gundungurra/Ngunawal is generally classified to fall within the tentative (and perhaps geographic) Yuin–Kuric group of the Pama–Nyungan family.
Ngunnawal words
More words are compiled online in The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales, an article by Robert H. Mathews first published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1904.
References
Ngunnawal language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA