Woiwurrung

Woiwurrung
Region	Victoria
Ethnicity	Wurundjeri
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Kulinic Kulin Wuy-wurrung Woiwurrung
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	woiw1237
AIATSIS	S36
The five Kulin nations. Woiwurrung is in yellow.
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Woiwurrung (sometimes spelt Woiwurrong, Woiworung, Wuywurung) is an Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria, from Mount Baw Baw in the east to Mount Macedon, Sunbury and Gisborne in the west. The language remains, but is not widely known or spoken due to the impact of colonisation.

The Woiwurrung clans inhabited the Yarra River, called Birrarung in Woiwurrung, before European displacement. The clans include:

Wurundjeri is a common term for descendants of all the Woiwurrung tribes who were forced together for the survival of their race. Their totems are Bunjil the eagle and Waa the crow.

LISTED BELOW ARE ALL THE TRIBAL TERRITORIES OF THE WOI-WURRUNG LANGUAGE NATION. Each tribe has is own distinct territory and boundary usually determined by waterways.

Wurundjeri Willam

Gunung Willam Balluk

Talling Willam

Kurung Jang Balluk

Marin Balluk

Wurundjeri Balluk

Balluk Willam

The Jindyworobak Movement claimed to have taken their name from a Woiwurrung phrase jindi worobak meaning to annex or join.

It is not clear if the two rhotics are trill and flap, or tap and approximant.

In the case of the Woiwurrung pronouns, the stem seems to be the standard ngali (you and I), but the front was suffixed to wa-, so wa+ngal combines to form wangal below.

Translation of the words