Wulna language

Wulna
Wulna
Beriguruk
Native to	Australia
Region	Arnhem Land
Ethnicity	Beriguruk, Djerimanga
Extinct	date unknown, 1 speaker cited in 1981[1]
Language family	Darwin Region Limilngan Wulna; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wux
Glottolog	wuln1239
AIATSIS[2]	N29
ELP	Wulna

Wulna (Wuna) is an extinct indigenous language of Australia. It had one speaker left in 1981.[1] It is poorly attested and only tentatively classified as being related to Limilngan.[2]

The State Library of New South Wales has an original copy of Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory by John W. O. Bennett (published in 1869) which it has made available online as scanned images. The book documents the vocabulary and pronunciation of Wulna in general, in addition to place names from the Adelaide River region of Norther Territory. The original copy has been annotated by Paul Foelsche, the first police inspector of Northern Territory,[3] who has added his own words to the vocabulary list, and his own corrections on pronunciation.

External links

Paradisec has an open access collection of Gavan Breen's materials for Wulna
A scanned online copy of Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory by John W. O. Bennett (published 1869, annotated by Paul Foelsche), on the State Library of New South Wales' website

References

Wulna at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
N29 Wulna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
"Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory' by John W. O. Bennett, annotated by Paul Foelsche | Indigenous Languages". indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 September 2022.

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[e16-1] Wulna at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

[AIATSIS-2] N29 Wulna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[3] "Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory' by John W. O. Bennett, annotated by Paul Foelsche | Indigenous Languages". indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 September 2022.