Ngunnawal language


Ngunnawal or Gundungurra is an extant Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngunnawal and Gandangara peoples. There are contradictory claims as to whether they are one language or two. The name Burragorang is applied to either.

Classification

Gundungurra/Ngunawal is generally classified to fall within the tentative Yuin–Kuric group of the Pama–Nyungan family.

Sounds

Ngunnawal vowels
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Highi, i:u, u:
Lowa, a:

Ngunnawal words

More words are compiled online in The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales, an article by Robert H. Mathews first published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1904.