Extinct Aboriginal language of Victoria, Australia
Boonwurrung
Native to
Australia
Region
Victoria
Ethnicity
Boonwurrung (including Yalukit)
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
Kulinic
Kulin
Woiwurrung[1]
Boonwurrung
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
boon1243
AIATSIS[2]
S35
ELP
Boonwurrung
The Boonwurrung language, also anglicised as Bunurong, Bun wurrung, and other variant spellings,[3] is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken by the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation of central Victoria prior to European settlement in the colony of Victoria. The last remaining traditional native speakers died in the early 20th century.
^Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47378-0.
^S35 Boonwurrung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^Other spellings and names include Boonerwrung, Boon Wurrung, Putnaroo, Thurung, Toturin, and Gippsland dialect ("Detailed record of the Bunurong". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. AusAnthrop anthropological research, resources and documentation on the Aborigines of Australia. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2012.)
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