Wunambal language

Wunambal
Spoken in	Western Australia
Native speakers	20  (1990)
Language family	Wororan Wunambal
Writing system	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	variously: wub – Wunambal wil – Wilawila gma – Gamberre gww – Kwini vmi – Miwa

Wunambal is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.

Classification

Wunambal is usually grouped with Worrorra and Ungarinjin in the Wororan family. R. M. W. Dixon (2002), however, regards Wororan as simply an areal group. Recent work by Rumsey and McGregor (2009), however, demonstrates the cohesiveness of the family and its reconstructibility.

Wunambal has several dialects, some of which may sometimes be treated as separate languages:

• Wilawila
• Gamberre
• Kwini (Gunin)
• Ginan
• Miwa (Bagu)
• Yiidji (Forrest River)

References

• Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780. 
• McGregor, W (1993). Gunin/Kwini. Munich: Lincom Europa. 
• McGregor and Rumsey (2009). Worrorran Revisited: The Case for Genetic Relations Among Languages of the Northern Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Pacific Linguistics.