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Nhuwala language

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Nhuwala
Native toWestern Australia
RegionBarrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast
ExtinctLate 1990s[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nhf
Glottolognhuw1239
AIATSIS[2]W30
ELPNhuwala

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.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Nhuwala at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ W30 Nhuwala at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method