Region Victoria Extinct (date missing) | Ethnicity Wemba-Wemba | |
Language family Pama–Nyungan
Kulinic
Kulin
Wemba-Wemba Dialects Nari Nari
Baraba Baraba
Wergaia (incl. Wotjobaluk)
? Jardwadjali ISO 639-3 xww – inclusive code
Individual codes:
rnr – Nari-Nari
rbp – Baraba-Baraba
weg – Wergaia
xwt – Wotjobaluk | ||
Wemba-Wemba is an extinct Indigenous Australian language once spoken along the tributaries of the Murrumbidgee River.
Jardwadjali (with dialects Jagwadjali, Nundadjali, Mardidjali) may be Wemba-Wemba, or may be closer to the Madhi–Ladji–Wadi varieties.
Sounds
Consonants
Vowels
Voiced consonants in italics are used in the consonant combinations. Consonant combinations include: /mb/ /nd/ /ndy/ /n.g/ /rnd/ and /rn.g/. In phonetic form they are pronounced as /mb/ /nd/ /ɲɟ/ /n.ɡ/ /ɳɖ/ and /ɳ.ɡ/.
References
Wemba Wemba language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA