Tharawal language

E680904

Tharawal language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Tharawal people of coastal New South Wales, south of Sydney.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Tharawal language canonical 4
Dharuk language 1
Thurawal language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
AIATSISCode S59
alternativeName Dharawal language
Thurawal language
linked to: Tharawal language

Turrubul (historical variant name)
Turuwal language
linked to: Tharawal language
associatedPeople Dharawal people
closelyRelatedTo Yuin languages of the south coast
continent Australia
country Australia
documentation recorded in 19th and 20th century wordlists
ethnicGroup Tharawal people
glottologCode dhar1248
glottologName Dharawal
linked to: Dharawal people
hasCaseSystem ergative–absolutive alignment
hasDialect Northern Dharawal
linked to: Dharawal Country

Southern Dharawal
hasLinguisticArea Southeast New South Wales linguistic area
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking tendencies
hasMorphologyType agglutinative morphology
hasNeighbouringLanguage Dharug language
Gandangara language
Yuin languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between laminal and apical consonants (typical of many NSW languages)
hasWordOrder flexible word order
ISO639-3Code tbh
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan
Yuin subgroup
Yuin–Kuric
nativeTo Tharawal Country
region Illawarra region
south coast of New South Wales
revitalisationEffort community language programs in New South Wales
teaching in some local schools and community centres
spokenIn Australia
New South Wales
coastal New South Wales
south of Sydney
status endangered language
revival language
traditionalTerritoryExtent Georges River region
Illawarra coast
linked to: Illawarra coastline

Port Hacking region
linked to: Port Hacking River

Shoalhaven River region
linked to: Shoalhaven region
usedFor ceremonial contexts
cultural revitalisation
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yuin–Kuric languages hasMember Tharawal language
Yuin–Kuric languages languageFamilyOf Tharawal language
Dharuk people language Dharuk language
linked to: Tharawal language
Tharawal language alternativeName Thurawal language
linked to: Tharawal language
Tharawal language alternativeName Turuwal language
linked to: Tharawal language
Yuin-Kuric subgroup hasMember Tharawal language
Tharawal people language Tharawal language