Wunambal language

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Wunambal language is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken by the Wunambal people of the Kimberley region in Western Australia.

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Label Occurrences
Wunambal language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Western Australian language
endangered language
associatedPeople Wunambal people
belongsTo Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation cultural domain
continent Oceania
country Australia
culturalRole carrier of Wunambal traditional knowledge
used in Wunambal songs and stories
endangeredBecauseOf language shift to English
language shift to Kriol
ethnicGroup Wunambal people
hasAlternativeName Kwini
Kwini-Wunambal
Wunambal
hasDialects Northern Wunambal
linked to: Kwini-Wunambal

Southern Wunambal
linked to: Kwini-Wunambal
hasGlottocode wuna1247
hasLinguisticTypology polysynthetic language
prefixing language
hasMorphology bound pronominal prefixes
complex verb morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
small vowel inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity remote Aboriginal communities in Kimberley
hasWordOrder flexible word order
isDocumentedIn Australian Indigenous languages surveys
isIndigenousTo Kimberley region
Western Australia
ISO639-3Code wub
isPartOf Aboriginal languages of the Kimberley
isRelatedTo Ngarinyin language
linked to: Gooniyandi language

Worrorra language
linked to: Worrorran languages
isSubjectTo language revitalization efforts
languageBranch Northern Worrorran
languageFamily Worrorran languages
primaryLocation Northern coastal Kimberley
linked to: Kimberley coast
region Northern Kimberley
linked to: Kimberley region
spokenIn Australia
Kimberley region
Western Australia
status severely endangered
usedBy Wunambal Gaambera community
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Wunambal people hasLanguage Wunambal language