Walangama language

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Walangama
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Walangama
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • Paman
    • Southern?
      • Walangama
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nlw
Glottolog wala1263 [1]
AIATSIS [2] G36

Walangama is an extinct Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. [3] It may have been one of the Southern Paman languages, but is poorly attested.

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Walangama". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. G36 Walangama at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)