Nhuwala
Native toWestern Australia
RegionBarrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast
ExtinctLate 1990s[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nhf
Glottolognhuw1239
AIATSIS[2]W30
ELPNhuwala

Nhuwala is a possibly extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. Dench (1995) believed there was insufficient data to enable it to be confidently classified, but Bowern & Koch (2004) include it among the Ngayarda languages without proviso.[3]

References

  1. Nhuwala at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. W30 Nhuwala at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method


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