Wadi Wadi language

Not to be confused with Wodi Wodi dialect of Thurawal.

Wadi-Wadi
Native toAustralia
RegionVictoria, New South Wales
EthnicityWadi Wadi, Weki Weki?
Native speakers
nearly extinct[1]
Pama–Nyungan
Dialects
  • Piangil
Language codes
ISO 639-3xwd
Glottologwadi1260
AIATSIS[3]D4
ELPWadi-Wadi

Wadi-Wadi is an extinct Indigenous Australian language once spoken in Victoria and New South Wales.

Clark suggests that Jari Jari is a closely related language,[4] but this name may refer to other languages.[5][6]

  1. ^ Wadi-Wadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
  3. ^ D4 Wadi-Wadi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ^ Clark, Ian (1996). Aboriginal language areas in Victoria: a reconstruction. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.
  5. ^ Blake, Barry; Reid, Julie (1998). "Classifying Victorian languages". In B. Blake (ed.). Wathawurrung and the Colac language of southern Victoria. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  6. ^ Horgen, Michael (2004). The languages of the Lower-Murray (MA). La Trobe University.