Djadjawurrung | |
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Region | Victoria |
Ethnicity | Dja Dja Wurrung people |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | None |
AIATSIS | S31.1 |
The five Kulin nations. Djadjawurrung is in the northwest in blue.
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Djadjawurrung (also Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is one of the extinct Indigenous Australian languages spoken by the Jaara also known as Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria. Djadjawurrung was spoken by 16 clans around Murchison, the central highlands region, east to Kyneton, west to the Pyrenees, north to Boort and south to the Great Dividing Range.
There are four vowels noted: /i e a u/. They may be also be phonetically written as /i ɛ~e a ʊ~u/.