Wemba Wemba language

Wemba-Wemba
Eastern Central Murray
RegionVictoria
EthnicityWemba-Wemba, Nari-Nari, Barababaraba, Wergaia, Wotjobaluk, Marditjali, ?Jardwadjali
Extinct(date missing)[1]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3xww – inclusive code
Individual codes:
rnr – Nari-Nari
rbp – Barababaraba
weg – Wergaia
xwt – Wotjobaluk
Glottologwest2443  incl. Madhi–Ladji–Wadi
AIATSIS[2]D1
ELPWemba-Wemba
 Nari Nari[3]

The Wemba Wemba language is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language once spoken along the Murray River and its tributaries in North Western Victoria and South Central New South Wales.

Nari Nari, a dialect of Wemba Wemba, is as of 2020 part of a language revival project. Other dialects are Barababaraba and Wergaia.

Jardwadjali (with dialects Jagwadjali, Nundadjali, Mardidjali) may be Wemba-Wemba,[4] or may be closer to the Madhi–Ladji–Wadi varieties.

  1. ^ "D1: Wemba Wemba". Austlang. AIATSIS. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ D1 Wemba-Wemba at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Nari Nari.
  4. ^ 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