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Nhuwala language

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Native to
  
Western Australia

Glottolog
  
nhuw1239

ISO 639-3
  
nhf

Region
  
Barrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast

Extinct
  
10 speakers reported in 1981

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Ngayarda Nhuwala

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.

References

Nhuwala language Wikipedia