Bun wurrung language
| Bun wurrung | |
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| Bunurong | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Victoria |
| Ethnicity | Bunurong people |
| Extinct | ca. 1903 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
| AIATSIS | S35 |
The five Kulin nations. Bunurong ('Boonwurrung') is in blue, on the coast.
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Bunwurrung (also anglicised as Bunurong, Bun wurrung, Boonwurrung among other spellings) is the Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria at the time of European settlement.
It was spoken by six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory.
Bunwurrung is closely related to Woiwurrung language, with which it shares over 90% of its vocabulary, and to a lesser degree with Taungurong spoken north of the Great Dividing Range in the are of the Goulburn River. Woiwurrung, Taungurong and Boonwurrung have been considered by linguists to be dialects of a single Central Victorian language, whose range stretched from almost Echuca in the north, to Wilson's Promontory in the south.
R. Brough Smyth wrote in 1878 that "The dialects of the Wooeewoorong or Wawoorong tribe (River Yarra) and the Boonoorong tribe (Coast) are the same. Twenty-three words out of thirty are, making allowances for differences of spelling and pronunciation, identical; five have evidently the same roots, and only two are widely different".
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