Wirangu language

Wirangu
Native toAustralia
RegionWest coast of South Australia
EthnicityWirangu people
Extinct2 semi-speakers reported in 2007[1]
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3wgu
Glottologwira1265
AIATSIS[2]C1
ELPWirangu
Tribal boundaries, after Tindale (1974), adapted from Hercus (1999)
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The Wirangu language, also written Wirrongu, Wirrung, Wirrunga, and Wirangga, and also known by other exonyms, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Wirangu people, living on the west coast of South Australia across a region encompassing modern Ceduna and Streaky Bay, stretching west approximately to the head of the Great Australian Bight and east to Lake Gairdner. It is a language of the Thura-Yura group, and some older sources placed it in a subgroup called Nangga.

  1. ^ Wirangu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ C1 Wirangu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies